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Bill broad and much depressed ; second quill longest, third a little shorter, 
first shorter than fourth ; tail scarcely emarginate, upper parts dull greenish- 
olive, the head darker ; wings and tail dusky-brown ; two bands of dull pale 
yellow on the wing, the secondary quills broadly edged and tipped Avith the 
same ; a narrow ring of yellowish-white round the eye ; throat greyish- white; 
sides of neck and fore part of breast greyish-olive, the rest of the lower parts 
yellowish-white. 
Male, 5i, 81. 
From Texas northward. Migratory. 
Sassafras. 
Laurus sassafras, Willd., Sp. . PI., vol. ii. p. 485. Pursch, FI. Amer. Sept., vol. 
i. p. 2 11. — Enneand'ria Monogynia, Linn. — Lauri, Juss. 
The Sassafras grows on almost every kind of soil in the Southern and 
Western States, where it is of common occurrence. Along the Atlantic 
States it extends as far as New Hampshire, and still farther north in the 
western country. The beauty of its foliage and its medicinal properties 
render it one of our most interesting trees. It attains a height of fifty or 
sixty feet, with a proportionate diameter. The leaves are alternate, petiolate, 
oval, and undivided, or three-lobed. The flowers, which appear before the 
leaves, are of a greenish-yellow colour, and the berries are of an oval form 
and bluish-black tint, supported on cups of a bright red, having long filiform 
peduncles. 
THE PEWEE FLYCATCHER 
Muscicapa fusca, Gmel. 
PLATE LXIII. — Male and Female. 
Connected with the biography of this bird are so many incidents relative 
to my own, that could I with propriety deviate from my proposed method, 
the present number would contain less of the habits of birds than of those of 
the youthful days of an American woodsman. While young, I had a planta- 
tion that lay on the sloping declivities of the Perkiomen creek. I was 
extremely fond of rambling along its rocky banks, for it would have been 
difficult to do so either without meeting with a sweet flower, spreading open 
