Chewink

The chewink in his harlequin suit of black, white, and chestnut varies his sharp and cheerful "Chewink" with a musical little strain, "Do-fah, fah-fah-fah-fah," and one of the white-throated sparrows now and then stops feeding and flies up to a hazel twig to give his sweet and plaintive little "pea-a-body, peabody, peabody."

Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

There is something irregular and fantastic in the coloring, also, of the Chewink: unlike the generality of ground-birds, it is a showy thing, with black, white, and bay intermingled, and it is one of the most unmistakable of all our feathery creatures, in its aspect and its ways.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

_Chewink_, though the sound he utters is more like _chewee_, accenting the second syllable.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

The Chewink (_Fringilla erythrophthalma_) is a very constant singer during four months of the year, from the middle of April.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

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.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

There is one favorite bird, -- the Chewink, or Ground-Robin, -- which, I always fancied, must have been known to Keats when he wrote those few words of perfect descriptiveness, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

While listening to the notes of the Wood-Sparrow, we are continually saluted by the agreeable, though less musical song of the Chewink, or

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

But the ordinary observer seldom attains farther than to comprehend some of the cries of anxiety and fear around him, often so unlike the accustomed carol of the bird, -- as the mew of the Cat-Bird, the lamb-like bleating of the Veery and his impatient _yeoick_, the _chaip_ of the Meadow-Lark, the _towyee_ of the Chewink, the petulant _psit_ and _tsee_ of the

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

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 Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 Various

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

Burgess Bird Book for Children 1919