THE WOOD PEWEE. 
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Pewit Flycatcher, Muscicapa nunciola, Wils. Amer. Ora., vol. ii. p. 18 
Muscicapa fusca, Bonap. Syn., p. 68. 
Pewit Flycatcher’ or Phcebe, Nutt. Man., vol. i. p. 278. 
Pewee Flycatcher, Muscicapa fusca, Aud. Qrn. Biog., vol. ii. p. 122 ; vol. v. p. 424, 
Wing mucli rounded, third quill longest, fourth scarcely shorter, but 
considerably longer than second, first intermediate between sixth and 
seventh ; tail emarginate ; upper parts dull olive, the head much darker ; 
quills and tail dusky brown, secondaries and their coverts edged with pale 
brown ; outer tail-feathers whitish on the outer edge, unless toward the 
tip ; lower parts dull yellowish-white, the breast tinged with grey. 
Male, 7, 94. 
Throughout the United States, and northward. Spends the winter in 
vast numbers in the southern parts. 
The Cotton Plant. 
Gossypihm herbaceum, Linn., Syst. Nat., voL ii. p. 462. — Monadelphia Polyan- 
dria, Linn. — Malvaceae', Juss. . 
This species, commonly known in America, is distinguished by its five- 
lobed leaves and herbaceous stem. 
THE WOOD PEWEE. 
Muscicapa virens, Linn . 
PLATE LXIY. — Male. 
It is in the darkest and most gloomy retreats of the forest that the Wood 
Pewee is generally to be found, during the season which it spends with us. 
You may find it, however, lurking for awhile in the shade of an overgrown 
orchard ; or, as autumn advances, you may see it gleaning the benumbed 
insects over the slimy pools, or gliding on the outskirts of the woods, when, 
for the last time, the piping notes of the bullfrog are heard mingling with its 
own plaintive tones. In all these places, it exhibits the simplicity and 
freedom of its natural habits, dashing after the insects on which it principally 
feeds, with a remarkable degree of inattention to surrounding objects. Its 
sallies have also the appearance of being careless, although at times protract- 
