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circular sweep of thirty or forty yards, snapping up numbers 

 in its way with great adroitness; and returning to its position 

 and chant as before. In the latter part of August its notes are 

 almost the only ones to be heard in the woods; about which 

 time, also, it even approaches the city, where I have frequent- 

 ly observed it busily engaged under trees, in solitary courts, 

 gardens, &c. feeding and training its young to their profession. 

 About the middle of September it retires to the south a full 

 month before the other. 



Length six inches, breadth ten; back dusky olive, inclining 

 to greenish; head subcrested and brownish black; tail forked and 

 widening towards the tips, lower parts pale yellowish white: the 

 only discriminating marks between this and the preceding are 

 the size, and the colour of the lower mandible, which in this is 

 yellow in the Pewee black. The female is difficult to be dis- 

 tinguished from the male. 



This species is far more numerous than the preceding; and 

 probably winters much farther south. The Pewee was numer- 

 ous in North and South Carolina, in February; but the Wood 

 Pewee had not made its appearance in the lower parts of Geor- 

 gia even so late as the sixteenth of March. 



