WOOD PEWEE FLYCATCHER. 
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circular sweep of thirty or forty yards, snapping up numbers 
in its way with great adroitness; and returning to its position 
and chant as before. In 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 frequent- 
ly 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 colour of the lower mandible, which in this is 
yellow — in the Pewee black. The female is difficult to be dis- 
tinguished from the male. 
This species is far more numerous than the preceding; and 
probably winters much farther south. The Pewee was numer- 
ous in North and South Carolina, in February; but the Wood 
Pewee had not made its appearance in the lower parts of Geor*- 
gia even so late as the sixteenth of March. 
