Plate CXV. Male.
Slightly crested; second quill longest, first shorter than third and
longer than sixth; tail deeply emarginate; upper parts dusky olive,
upper part of head much darker; a pale greyish ring round the eye; two
bands of greyish-white on the wings, secondaries margined with the
same; quills and tail-feathers blackish-brown; throat and breast
ash-grey tinged with green, the rest of the lower parts pale
greenish-yellow.
_Male_, 6-1/2, 11.
Throughout the United States. British Provinces. Labrador.
Newfoundland. Rocky Mountains. Columbia River. Migratory.
Wood Pewee, Muscicapa rapax, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. ii. p. 81.
Wood Pewee, Muscicapa virens, Nutt. Man. v. i. p. 285.
Muscicapa virens, Bonap. Syn. p. 68.
Wood Pewee, Muscicapa virens, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p. 93; v.
v. p. 425.