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bles of the Common Pewee (Sayornis fuscus), this note is still 

 very noticeably different in its slow, tender and somewhat 

 melancholy whistle, pe-wee, the tone of which is in fine har- 



THE WOOD PEWEE. 



mony with the deep shadows of the thick forest where he 

 so constantly takes up his abode. Generally the last syl- 

 lable is given in a gentle upward slide, but not infrequently 

 in a fine falling inflection, and the two syllables combined 

 are always very pleasing. Wood Pewees have the sweet and 

 child-like tones of the family; and, like the sentences of 

 little children, they are delivered in the most significant 

 slides and inflections. 



About the size of Traill's Flycatcher and the small Green 

 Crested some six inches in length and of the same gen- 

 eral olive-green above and yellowish-white beneath (only 

 the olive is quite a good deal darker than that of the latter), 

 it is always to be differentiated by its nest, which is a very 

 gem in bird-building. Saddled on a forked limb, often in 

 the orchard, often in the forest, it is quite shallow, composed 

 outwardly of dried grasses or stalks of small weeds, closely 

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