THE WOOD PEWEE. 231 



Pewit Flycatcher, Muscicapa nunciola, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. ii. p. 78. 



Muscicapa fusca, Bonap. Syn., p. 68. 



Pewit Flycatcher or Phcebe, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 278. 



Pewee Flycatcher, Muscicapa fusca, Aud. Orn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 122; vol. v. p. 424. 



Wing much rounded, third quill longest, fourth scarcely shorter, but con- 

 siderably longer than second, first intermediate between sixth and seventh; 

 tail emarginate; upper parts dull olive, the head much darker; quills and tail 

 dusky brown, secondaries and their coverts edged with pale brown; outer 

 tail-feathers whitish on the outer edge, unless toward the tip; lower parts 

 dull yellowish-white, the breast tinged with grey. 



Male, 7, 9\. 



Throughout the United States, and northward. Spends the winter in vast 

 numbers in the southern parts. 



The Cotton Plant. 



Gossypium herbaceum, Linn., Syst. Nat., vol. ii. p. 462. — Monadelphia Polyandria, 

 Linn. Malvace^;, Juss. 



This species, commonly known in America, is distinguished by its five- 

 lobed leaves and herbaceous stem. 



THE WOOD PEWEE. 



■+ Muscicapa virens, Linn. 



PLATE LXIV.— Male. 



It is in the darkest and most gloomy retreats of the forest that the Wood 

 Pewee is generally to be found, during the season which it spends with us. 

 You may find it, however, lurking for awhile in the shade of an overgrown 

 orchard; or, as autumn advances, you may see it gleaning the benumbed in- 

 sects over the slimy pools, or gliding on the outskirts of the woods, when, 

 for the last time, the piping notes of the bullfrog are heard mingling with its 

 own plaintive tones. In all these places, it exhibits the simplicity and free- 

 dom of its natural habits, dashing after the insects on which it principally 

 feeds, with a remarkable degree of inattention to surrounding objects. Its 

 sallies have also the appearance of being careless, although at times protract- 



