pe-a-r

Updated: May 23, 2025

They stopped for half an hour in the wooded lane, where a Chat whistled to them, a Scarlet Tanager flew hastily overhead, and the Doctor showed them a Towhee rambling among the leaves, while a little brownish bird kept flitting into the air and back to his perch, calling "pewee pe-a-r!" in a sad voice. "What's that?" asked Rap; "it's a bird I often see near the mill, catching flies on the wing."

Elliott Coues - Citizen Bird : Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners