PEWIT FLYCATCHER, or PHCEBE. 
(Muscicajya atra Gar. M. Phoebe, Lath. M. fusca. Bonap. M . nunciola f 
Wilson, ii. p. 78. pi. 13. fig. 4. Phil. Museum, No. 6618.) 
Sp. Charact. — Dark olive-brown, darker on the head; beneath 
pale yellowish ; bill black; tail emarginate, extending an inch 
and a half beyond the closed wings ; the exterior feather whitish 
on the outer web. 
This familiar species inhabits the continent of North 
America, from Canada to Florida, retiring from the 
Northern and Middle States at the approach of winter. 
How far they proceed to the south at this season is not 
satisfactorily ascertained ; a few, no doubt, winter in the 
milder parts of the Union, as Wilson saw them in Februa- 
ry in the swamps of North and South Carolina, where they 
were feeding on smilax berries, and occasionally even 
giving their well known notes ; but in the winter, and 
early spring of 1830, while employed in an extensive 
pedestrian journey from South Carolina to Florida and 
