PEWIT FLYCATCHER. 
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The length of this species is five inches and a half ; 
breadth, nine inches ; the upper parts are of a green 
olive colour , the lower, pale greenish yellow, darkest 
on the breast ; the wings are deep brown, crossed with 
two bars of yellowish white, and a ring of the same 
surrounds the eye, which is hazel. The tail is rounded 
at the end ; the bill is remarkably flat and broad, dark 
brown above, and flesh colour below ; legs and feet, pale 
ash. The female differs little from the male in colour. 
77. MUSCICAPA NUNCIOLA , WILSON. — M. FUSCA, GMELIN. 
PEWIT FLYCATCHER. 
This well-known bird is one of our earliest spring 
visitants, arriving in Pennsylvania about the first week 
in March, and continuing with us until October. I 
have seen them here as late as the 12th of November. 
In the month of February, I overtook these birds linger- 
ing in the low swampy woods of North and South 
Carolina. They were feeding on smilax berries, and 
chanting, occasionally, their simple notes. The favou- 
rite resort of this bird is by streams of water, under or 
near bridges, in caves, &c. Near such places he sits on 
a projecting twig, calling out, pe-wee , pe-wittitee pe - 
wee , for a whole morning ; darting after insects, and 
returning to the same twig ; frequently flirting his tail, 
like the wagtail, though not so rapidly. He begins to 
build about the 20tli or 25th of March, on some project- 
ing part under a bridge, in a cave, in an open well, five 
or six feet down among the interstices of the side 
walls, often under a shed, in the low eaves of a cottage, 
and such like places. The outside is composed of mud 
mixed with moss, is generally large and solid, and lined 
with flax and horse hair. The eggs are five, pure 
white, with two or three dots of red near the great end. 
I have known them rear three brood in one season. 
In a particular part of Mr Bartram’s woods, with 
which I am acquainted, by the side of a small stream, 
is a cave, five or six feet high, formed by the under- 
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