. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 344 NORTH AMERICAN Satfornis nigricans. I, 248. Musckapa carolinetisis fusca, BuissON, Oiii. II, 17<lightly forked. Third quill longest ; soeond and fourth nearly equal; the lirst shorter than Length, 7 inches ; wing, ; tail. . Hab. Eastern North America ; Eastern Mexico to Miiador and Orizaba. Cuba (Cabajj. J. IV, 1) ; Xalapa, (.^ List, '2oi) : Vera Cruz, winter (.Simicukast, M. B. S. I, 557); San Antonio, Texas (Dressku, Ibis, LS05, 773, rare). Til aiituni
. A history of North American birds [microform] : land birds. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. 344 NORTH AMERICAN Satfornis nigricans. I, 248. Musckapa carolinetisis fusca, BuissON, Oiii. II, 17<lightly forked. Third quill longest ; soeond and fourth nearly equal; the lirst shorter than Length, 7 inches ; wing, ; tail. . Hab. Eastern North America ; Eastern Mexico to Miiador and Orizaba. Cuba (Cabajj. J. IV, 1) ; Xalapa, (.^ List, '2oi) : Vera Cruz, winter (.Simicukast, M. B. S. I, 557); San Antonio, Texas (Dressku, Ibis, LS05, 773, rare). Til aiituniii, and occasionally in early s])i'inff, the colors are nuicli clearer and briffliter. AVliole lower parts soiuetinies lu'ii^'ht siil|iliin-yellow ; above, greenish-olive; to]) and sides of the head tiiij^ed with sooty. In the young of the year the colors are nmch duller; all the wing-coverts broadly ti])iied with light ferruginous, as the extreme ends of the wings and tail- feathers. Tlio brown is prevalent on the whole tlirotit and breast; the hind part of the back, ruiuji, and tail strongly ferruginous. The Pewee, or Pliu'be-Uird, a well-known harbinger of early spring, is a conunon species throughout the whole of eastern North Amer- ica, from tlie Kio (Irande, on the southwest, to the ])rovinces ol' Xova Scotia and New Brunswick on the northetist, and as far west as the Kiver. Dr. Woodhouse found it ;M)minon lioth throughout Texas an<l in tiie In- dian Territory. It '" taken by Sumichrast in the Department of Vera Cruz, but he was in doubt whether it occurs there as a resident or is only migratory. Tt was observed at San Antonio, Tc^xas, but only tis a migrant, by both Dresser and Heermann ; but at Ht)uston, in that State, it evidently remains and breeds, as indivithials were seen there in June by Dresser. Specimens were taken in February at IJrownsville, Texas, l)y Lieutenant Couch, and afterwards in March on the opposite side of the ri
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