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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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