单词 | chewink |
例句 | Instead of scratching up the leaves and earth with her feet as chewinks and sparrows do, the thrasher used her bill almost exclusively. A-Birding on a Bronco "Out West the chewink calls like a catbird," he observed. Camping & Tramping with Roosevelt The particular bush that hid my chewink babies had to be marked, as one would mark the special tuft of grass that hides a bobolink's nest. Upon The Tree-Tops With them the blue jays blew trumpets and clanged bells, the woodpeckers drummed and shrieked and crows and chewinks added to the clamor. Old Plymouth Trails Still another musician who delights to take liberties with his score is the towhee bunting, or chewink. Birds in the Bush My spleen was especially turned against the brown chewink; he certainly was a good fighter, and might at least have helped to clear the neighborhood of such a suspicious character. A-Birding on a Bronco The chewink is a curious exchange for the robin. A Bird-Lover in the West Then, to my amazement, with hardly a pause, he began a second song, quite different, and unlike any chewink song I have heard. Upon The Tree-Tops Now he says “towhee’!” the next time “chewink’!” The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year In neighborly association with the brown thrush is the towhee bunting, or chewink. Birds in the Bush The lower limbs offered perches where doves might come to rest, finches to chatter, and chewinks to sing; while its hanging boughs and elm-like feathered sides attracted wandering warblers and songful wrens. A-Birding on a Bronco I did miss his voice in the morning chorus,—the one who lived in the grove was not much of a singer,—but I was glad to know the chewink, who was almost a stranger. A Bird-Lover in the West Most charming was a scion of the chewink family learning to ring his silver bell. Upon The Tree-Tops His habit is continued in the spring by the towhee, or chewink, who uses the same methods, throwing both feet backward simultaneously. The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year One afternoon last summer a young friend and I found ourselves, as we suspected, near a chewink's nest, and at once set out to see which of us should have the honor of the discovery. Birds in the Bush The brush and trees were full of song—yellowbirds, linnets, chewinks, doves, wrens, and, best of all, a song sparrow,—bless his heart!—singing as if he were on a bush in New York state. A-Birding on a Bronco It is not a bird that skulks and hides, like the catbird, the brown thrasher, the chat, or the chewink, and its nest is not concealed with the same art as theirs. Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs He is the towhee bunting or chewink, sometimes called ground robin, and in that corner of Colorado he takes the place the robin fills with us, the most common bird about the house. Upon The Tree-Tops It is no "chewink" at all, but almost as close a reproduction of a cat's mew as is the catbird's well-known call. Birds of the Rockies 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. Birds in the Bush As I returned to the gnatcatchers, a chewink was hoeing in the sand stream. A-Birding on a Bronco But the chewink was not to be sobered so quickly. Some Summer Days in Iowa I once found, in another place a nest full of chewink babies. Upon The Tree-Tops Catch for your next prayer meeting talk a chewink or a brown thresher. Around The Tea-Table The chewink is more constant in his visits, as is also the golden-winged woodpecker. Birds in the Bush The road robin or chewink is fairly common in the thickets above the Lake. The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter Young chewinks are being fed down among the ripening May-apples in the pasture. Some Summer Days in Iowa The next day, a chewink, I think the same whose music and whose teaching I had admired, honored me with a song and a sight together. Upon The Tree-Tops Some crows followed the workers at a distance, hunting for grains of corn, and over in the woods, a chewink scratched and rustled among the deep leaves as it searched for grubs. At the Foot of the Rainbow From——one could not see where, came a vireo, and almost at the same time a chewink had something to say. The Harvester Swallows were flying about us, and the chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand. Excursions That is why the chewink sings so happily from dawn till dark. Some Summer Days in Iowa I have seen two male chewinks facing each other and wrathfully impelled upward in the same manner, while the female that was the bone of contention between them regarded them unconcernedly from the near bushes. The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton As always, a few crows cawed above the deep woods, and the chewinks threshed about among the dry leaves. At the Foot of the Rainbow Tree toads sang on the cool rocks beneath them, chewinks nested under gnarled roots among them, rose-breasted grosbeaks sang in grape-vines clambering over the thickets, and Singing Water ran close beside. The Harvester White-eyed chewinks were at home in the dense palmetto scrub, whence they announced themselves unmistakably by sharp whistles. A Florida Sketch-Book Latest among the singers are the chewinks, the wood pewees, the field sparrows, and, of course, the goldfinches and the cuckoos. Some Summer Days in Iowa Jays were as loud and busy as at the North in autumn; there were sparrows and wrens; and sometimes I noticed the shy and whimsical chewink. Army Life in a Black Regiment The chewinks flashed from the ground to the fences and trees, and back, crying "Che-wink?" At the Foot of the Rainbow There wasa chewink in the Stanley woods, that brought off a brood of four, under the safe shelter of a rank thistle leaf, in the midst of trampling herds of cattle driven wild by flies. Moths of the Limberlost On the same principles the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood sparrow, or the chewink. Wake-Robin The young chewinks left their nests in the pasture on the third, and the chewink's feelings expressed themselves in song for two weeks after that. Some Summer Days in Iowa He may and not care and so leave the chewink To gather them for him—you know what he is. North of Boston A chewink, brave in his black and white and tan uniform, scratched mightily with great two-footed swoops that threw the vegetable mould over Orde's very feet. The Riverman To my surprise, saw a chewink also, and the yellow-rumped warbler. Wake-Robin There is also a Western chickadee, a Western chewink, a Western blue jay, a Western bluebird, a Western song sparrow, Western grouse, quail, hen-hawk, etc. Wake-Robin |
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