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WOOD PEWEE FLYCATCHER 



the latter part of August its notes are almost the only ones to be 

 heard in the woods; about which time, also, it even approaches 

 the city, where I have frequently observed it busily engaged under 

 trees, in solitary courts, gardens, &c. feeding and training its young 

 to their profession. About the middle of September it retires to 

 the south a full month before the other. 



Length six inches, breadth ten; back dusky olive inclining to 

 greenish ; head subcrested and brownish black ; tail forked and 

 widening towards the tips, lower parts pale yellowish white: the 

 only discriminating marks between this and the preceding are the 

 size ; and the color of the lower mandible, which in this is yellow — 

 in the Pewee black. The female is difficult to be distinguished 

 from the male. 



This species is far more numerous than the preceding; and 

 probably winters much farther south. The Pewee was numerous 

 in North and South Carolina, in February; but the Wood Pewee 

 had not made its appearance in the lower parts of Georgia even 

 so late as the sixteenth of March. 



