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black ; iris, hazel. The female is almost exactly like the 

 male, except in having the crest somewhat more brown. This 

 species inhabits from Canada to Florida ; great numbers of 

 them usually wintering in the two Carolinas and Georgia. 

 In New York, they are called the phceby bird, and are 

 accused of destroying bees. With many people in the country, 

 the arrival of the pewee serves as a sort of almanack, remind- 

 ing them that now it is time such and such work should be 

 done. " Whenever the pewit appears," says Mr Bartram, 

 "we may plant peas and beans in the open grounds, French 

 beans, sow radishes, onions, and almost every kind of esculent 

 garden seeds, without fear or danger from frosts ; for, although 

 we have sometimes frosts after their first appearance for a 

 night or two, yet not so severe as to injure the young 

 plants."* 



WOOD PEWEE FLYCATCHEK, (3fi(scicapa rapax.) 



PLATE XIII.— Fig. 5. 



Muscicapa virens, Linn. Syst. 327. — Lath. Syn. ii. 350, Id. Sup. p. 174, No. 

 82. — Catesb. i. 54, fig. 1. — Le Gobe-mouche brun de la Caroline, Buff. iv. 543. 

 —Muscicapa acadica, Gmel. Syst. i. p. 947.— Arct. Zool. 387, No. 270.— 

 Peale's Museum, No. 6660. 



TYRANNULA VIRENS.— Jakdine. 

 Muscicapa virens, Linn. Syst. — Bonap. Synop. 



I have given the name wood pewee to this species, to dis- 

 criminate it from the preceding, which it resembles so much 

 in form and plumage as scarcely to be distinguished from it 

 but by an accurate examination of both. Yet in manners, 

 mode of building, period of migration, and notes, the two 

 species differ greatly. The pewee is among the first birds 

 that visit us in spring, frequenting creeks, building in caves, 

 and under arches of bridges ; the wood pewee, the subject 



* Travels, p. 288. 



