WOOD PEWEE. 
(Contopus vi/rens.) 
LIVACEOUS brown, darker on head. Sides, paler. 
Under parts, whitish, tinged with dullyellow. Trail and 
wings, blackish; wings somewhat marked with white. 
Feet and upper mandible, black. Under mandible, yellow. 
Length, 6 to 6% inches. Bill, very flat. Wings, long and 
pointed. Tail, but little shorter than wing. 
Eastern North America in woodlands. Nest, a pretty struct- 
ure saddled on a horizontal bough, of fine fibers stuck over with 
lichens, the whole looking like an excrescence of the tree. 
Eggs, four to five, creamy white, marked with reddish 
brown and lilac. 
Has a drawling note, fe a wee a pe wee. 
“Every morning,” said Miss Sweet, “I have in- 
tended to speak again about the ‘tables.’ I have some- 
times thought that when you have copied them in your 
note books, you consider your work with them is done, 
while really they are the most important part of our 
lessons, since they contain accurate information, and if 
you study them carefully you will be able to know 
every bird described. There is a great difference of 
opinion about the Pewee, some writers consider him 
interesting, while others think him quarrelsome and 
his iteration of ‘pee-ee-wee-ee’ positively tiresome.” 
“Auntie says,” said Laura, “that the Pewee is 
about the only bird that she cannot endure. She says 
he sits in the shade and laments just like some folks, 
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