SPECIES 4. MUSCICAPA RAPAX.^ 
WOOD PEWEE FLYCATCHER. 
[Plate XIIL— Fig. 5.] 
■Muscicapa virens, Linn. Spst. 327. — Lath. Spn. ii, 350. — Id, 
Supp. p. 174, JVb. 82. — Catesb. i, 54, jig. 1 . — Le gobe-mouche 
brun de la Caroline, Buff, iv, 543 . — Muscicapa acadica, Gmel. 
Syst. I, p. 947. — .drct. Zool. 387, JV*o. 270. — Peale’s Museum, 
JVo. 6660. 
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 dilfer 
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 of our present account, 
is among the latest of our summer birds, seldom arriving be- 
fore the twelfth or fifteenth of May; frequenting the shadiest 
high timbered woods, where there is little underwood, and 
abundance of dead twigs and branches shooting across the gloom, 
generally in low situations; builds its nest on the upper side of 
a limb or branch, forming it outwardly of moss; but using no 
mud; and lining it with various soft materials. The female lays 
five white eggs; and the first brood leave the nest about the 
middle of June. 
This species is an exceeding expert Flycatcher. It loves to 
sit on the high dead branches, amid the gloom of the woods, 
calling out in a feeble plaintive tone, peto way;peto way; pee 
way; occasionally darting after insects; sometimes making a 
Muiciea))a virens, Linn, which name should be adopted. 
