126 WOOD PEWEE. 
Pewee. As so often happens among birds, their voices 
are in keeping with their temperaments. The soft, 
Wood Pewee,  Ireamy pee-a-wee or pee-a-wee peer of 
Contopus virens. | the Pewee is as well suited to its char- 
Plate XXXII. acter as the harsh, chattering cries of 
victory are to the Kingbird’s. 
The Pewee is the last of our more common Fly: 
catchers to come from the South, arriving about May 10, 
and, like the Chebec, remaining until October. It is less 
social than either the Chebec or the Pheebe. Forests 
are its chosen haunts, but occasionally it is found on well- 
shaded lawns and roadsides. 
The Pewee’s nest rivals the Hummingbird’s in beauty. 
It is a coarser structure, composed of fine grasses, rootlets, | 
and moss, but externally is thickly covered with lichens. 
Usually it is saddled on a limb from twenty to forty feet 
above the ground. The eggs, three or four in number, 
are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around the 
larger end. 
Larks. (FAMILY ALAUDIDZ.) 
This family contains the true Larks, birds with long — 
hind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy colored 
plumage, the Skylark being a typ.cal species. There are 
some one hundred species of Larks, but of these only the 
Horned Lark and its geographical varieties are found 
in this country. 
The variation in color shown by the Horned Lark 
throughout its range is remarkable. From the Mexican 
Horned Lark,  tableland northward to Labrador and 
Otocoris alpestris. Alaska no less than eleven different 
Plate XXXIV. »eographical races are known, each one 
reflecting the influence of the conditions under which it 
lives, and all intergrading one with another. Only two of 
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