f southern Arizona, where they nest generally
during June. They lay three eggs of a rich creamy color, spotted and
blotched, chiefly about the larger end, with reddish brown and lilac
gray. Size .95 x .61. Data.--Huachuca Mts., Arizona, July 8, 1897. 3
eggs. Nest in a yellow pine about 60 feet up and near the extremity of a
long slender limb. Elevation 7000 feet. Collector, O. W. Howard.

461. WOOD PEWEE. _Myiochanes virens._

Range.--North America, east of the Plains and north to the southern
parts of the British Provinces. Winters south of the United States.

This is one of the best known and one of the most common frequenters of
open woods, where all summer long its pleasing notes may be heard,
resembling "Pee-a-wee" or sometimes only two syllables "pee-wee." They
nest on horizontal limbs at elevations of six feet or over, making
handsome nests of plant fibres and fine grasses, covered on the exterior
with lichens; they are quite shallow and very much resembles a small
knot on the limb of the tree. They lay three or four eggs of a cream
color spotted in a wreath about the large end, with reddish brown and
lavender; size .80 x .55. Data.--Torrington, Conn., June 16, 1890. Nest
of fibres covered with lichens, saddled on the branch of an oak tree
near roadside. Collector, John Gath.

[Illustration 293: Cream color.]
[Illustration: Wood Pewee.]
[Illustration: Cream color.]
[Illustration: Chickadee Family.]
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[Illustration 294: Guy H. Briggs.
NEST AND EGGS OF WOOD PEWEE.]

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462. WESTERN WOOD PEWEE. _Myiochanes richardsoni richardsoni._

Range.--Western United States from the Plains to the Pacific, and from
Manitoba southward, wintering south of the United States.

The nesting habits of this bird are the same as those of the eastern
Pewee, but their nests are more strongly built and generally deeper, and
without the outside ornamentation of lichens. They are saddled upon
horizontal branches, like those of the preceding, as a rule, but are
also said to have been found in upright crotches like those of the Least
Flycatcher. Their three or four eggs cannot be distinguished from those
of the eastern Wood Pewee.

462a. LARGE-BILLED WOOD PEWEE. _Myiochanes richardsoni peninsulae._

Range.--This species which differs from the last only slightly, as is
indicated by the name, inhabits the peninsula of Lower California; its
nesting habits and eggs will not dif