THE WOOD PEWEE. 33'/ 



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- 



THK 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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