. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 94 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. who has is the leaf near by. The " ching a-wee, cher-wee, wee—!" quite as often ends abruptly as otherwise, and there is one less insect in the shrubbery. A still more mysterious singer in the wildwood, one who sings along with the hermit thrush and ever evaded my watchful eyes, wood pewee {Contopus virens). I have seen fifty thrushes to one pewee, and yet have heard both singing at the same time and in the same wood. At last, in the past season, I saw the p
. Familiar life in field and forest; the animals, birds, frogs, and salamanders. Zoology. 94 FAMILIAR LIFE IN FIELD AND FOREST. who has is the leaf near by. The " ching a-wee, cher-wee, wee—!" quite as often ends abruptly as otherwise, and there is one less insect in the shrubbery. A still more mysterious singer in the wildwood, one who sings along with the hermit thrush and ever evaded my watchful eyes, wood pewee {Contopus virens). I have seen fifty thrushes to one pewee, and yet have heard both singing at the same time and in the same wood. At last, in the past season, I saw the pewee: a plainly attired little creature, with rusty black back and gray-white breast. There he was, on a sprig of the gray birch, calling his mate, as usual, with " Sally, come here!. The Wood Pewee. H- el' but musically, thus: ^ ^ ooUy come here Here! It is the most musical of calls, full of suggestive- ness, and quite as much a part of the spring orchestra as the peep of the Ilyla. But the most remarkable part of it is the long-drawn-out "H-e-r-e!" which might just as well be translated ""Whi-e-e-eu!" It is a whistle rapidly descending the scale, precisely like the whistle of painful surprise one makes when one's " best corn" is trodden on. In the case of the bird. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mathews, F. Schuyler (Ferdinand Schuyler), 1854-1938; Underwood, William Lyman, 1864-1929, phot. New York, D. Appleton and Company
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