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Bird Studies. 



They are about six inches and a half long. The upper parts are 

 decided olive brown, shaded sometimes with grayish olive green. The 

 Wood Pewee. wings and tail are darker, and there are two whitish 

 contopus virens (Linn.), wing bars. The lower parts are grayish white, some- 

 times faintly yellow, becoming olive gray on the breast, sides, and flanks. 

 The sexes are alike, and immature birds are much the same in appearance, 

 except that the wing bars are brownish buff, and there are suggestions of 

 yellowish on the lower parts. 



WOOD PEWEE. 



The nest is placed on a horizontal limb, from fifteen to fifty feet from 

 the ground. It is a well built structure of fine grasses, plant fibres, and moss, 

 covered with lichens on the outside. The three or four white eggs are 

 marked with a circle of brown spots of varying shades at the larger end. 

 They are about seven tenths of an inch long, and more than half an inch in 

 their other diameter. 



The birds are found in Eastern North America, during the warmer por- 

 tions of the year ranging as far north as Newfoundland, and breeding from 

 Florida northward. They winter in Central America. 



