pewee

• Now and again, as they rustled some low tree, a pewee or a nuthatch would give a startled chirp. —  Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories
• It was a wood-pewee's nest, and while I let her peep the mother-bird flew toward us with a shrill pathetic cry Hush, you horrid thing!" —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878.
• Of the smaller birds, the nuthatch, the wood and hermit thrush, whippoorwill, woodpeckers, wood-pewee, and others. —  On the Trail An Outdoor Book for Girls
• There is often a very audible snap of the beak as they seize their prey The wood pewee, the prevailing species in this locality, arrests your attention by his sweet, pathetic cry. —  In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs
• But the pewees came back at last, and one of them is now on his wonted perch, so near my window that I can hear the click of his bill as he snaps a fly on the wing.... The pewee is the first bird to pipe up in the morning; and, during the early summer he preludes his matutinal ejaculation of pewee with a slender whistle, unheard at any other time. —  Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers

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