chipping-bird

“Birds who scarcely sing, have a peculiar cry, heard much more clearly and frequently at this season than any other; – the twittering of the swallows, for instance, and the prolonged chirrup of the chipping-bird, so like that of the locust when heard from the trees.”

Rural Hours

“The snowbird, or "black chipping-bird," as it is known among the farmers, is the finest architect of any of the ground-builders known to me.”

In the Catskills Selections from the Writings of John Burroughs

“Our familiar and ever-welcome snow-bird, known in some quarters as the black chipping-bird, and often called the black snow-bird, has a long trill, not altogether unlike the common chipper's, but in a much higher key.”

Birds in the Bush

“Although nearly related to the orioles, which make such wonderful nests, the cow-birds make none at all, but lay their eggs in the nests of other birds, such as the blue-bird, chipping-bird, song-sparrow, yellow-bird, and some thrushes and fly-catchers.”

St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9

“A brown bird this one, darker than the song-sparrow, and without the latter's light stripes, and smaller, yet bigger than the queer little chipping-bird.”

The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner