158 WOOD PEWEE. 



Pewee. As so often happens among hircis, their voices 

 are in keeping with tlieir temperaments. The soft, 



Wood Pewee, dreamy pee-a-toee or pee-a-wee peer of 

 Contnpus n'nii.s. the Pewec is as well suited to its char- 

 Plate xxxm. aeter 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 ahout May 10, 

 and, like the Chebec, remaining until October. It is less 

 social than either the Chetiec or the Phoabe. 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, l)ut externally is thickly covered with lichens. 

 Usually it is saddled on a limb from twenty to forty feet 

 al)Ove the ground. The eggs, thi-ee or four in number, 

 are white, with a wreath of dark brown spots around tlie 

 larger end. 



Larks. (Family Alatoid^.") 



This family contains the true Larks, birds with long 

 hind toe nails, and a generally brown or sandy colored 

 plumage, the Skylark being a typical 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 colcr shown by the Horned Lark 

 throughout its range is remarkable. From the Mexican 



Horned Lark tableland ni_^i-thwai-d to Labrador and 



otoeoris aip,ntris. Alaska no less than eleven diffei'ent 



i'kte xxxi\ . geographical races are known, each one 



reflecting the influence of the conditions under which it 



lives, and all intergrading one with another. Only two of 



