The unobtrusive little chewink is not infrequently mistaken for a robin, because of the reddish chestnut on its under parts.
So he bought a full-grown chewink who was singing, and put him close to his young relative.
When the little one began to sing, he did not sing chewink but ortolan, and he did it so well that one could hardly tell which bird was singing.
A bird-lover whom I know found one day a nestling chewinkwho could not fly much, and seemed to be deserted, or lost, in a barren place on Long Island.
The baby chewink seemed to take a great liking to the stranger, and tried to do everything he did.
The chewink has at the best an exquisite song, though there is a great difference in singers, as there is in all bird families.
There are several species in California, and the Western variety of the common chewink of the East is called the spurred towhee, with habits the same, so far as known.
Chewink size; blackish ash above; white below; black tail conspicuously tipped with white; noisy and quarrelsome.
Chewink to Robin size; lustrous black above with central white in broad bars; sides black-and-white barred.
Sparrow to Chewink size; uniform sooty brown coloration of head and upperparts; heavily spotted below with sepia or blackish; darker above and more heavily spotted below than any migrant form of the P.
Chewink size; almost uniform slaty coloration with thicket-haunting habits distinctive; lithe and slender as compared with Water Ouzel.
Chewink size; brown head and black body of male; brown of female.
Chewink to Robin size; bright red epaulets of male; general streakiness of female.
Sparrow to Chewink size; slaty gray and brown coloration above with heavy spotting on breast distinctive; gray instead of brown on back as compared with the five members of the unalaschensis group.
Chewink size; black head and variegated plumage of male; large beak, with haunts, distinctive.
Chewink to Robin size; yellow crown-patch of male; back without white as compared with P.
As I returned to the gnatcatchers, a chewink was hoeing in the sand stream.
A big brown California chewink stood by and watched the--robbery(?
The Chewink (Fringilla erythrophthalma) is a very constant singer during four months of the year, from the middle of April.
While engaged in singing, the Chewink is usually perched on the lower branch of a tree, near the edge of a wood, or on the top of a tall bush.
The notes of the Chewink and his general appearance and habits are well calculated to render him conspicuous, and they cause him to be always noticed and remembered.
Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds,--the chewink and the brown thrasher.
The chewink is more constant in his visits, as is also the golden-winged woodpecker.
But whatever his lineage, it is plain that the chewink is not a bird to be governed very strictly by the traditions of the fathers.
It is very droll to see one of his family take part in the clamors of a bird mob, perching like his bigger fellows, and adding his excited cries to the notes of catbird and robin, chewink and yellow-bird.
That is why the chewink sings so happily from dawn till dark.
To my surprise, saw a chewink also, and the yellow-rumped warbler.
Of course he could sit perfectly still and let Chewink be caught, but that was such a dreadful thought that Peter didn't consider it for more than a second or two.
He had gone to tell Mrs. Chewinkthat he was quite safe and that she had nothing to worry about.
It was Chewink the Towhee, sometimes called Ground Robin.
He couldn't warn Chewink without making his own presence known to Reddy Fox.
Oh, worms and bugs that hide under the leaves," replied Chewink carelessly.
It was something alive, for it was moving very slowly and cautiously towards the place where Chewink was so busy and forgetful of everything but his breakfast.
From his perch Chewink watched until he was sure that Reddy Fox had gone away for good.
Chewink flew down to the ground and Peter crept out of the bramble-tangle.
At the sound of that thump Chewink instantly flew up in a little tree.
It was quite clear that Chewink was hungry and that under those dry leaves he was finding a good meal.
The chewink still sang from the top of the sapling, but the tame broad day had come.
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