CHEWIISTK; TOWHEE BUl!^TmG; 

 GROUND ROBIN. 



PIPILO EEYTHKOPHTHALMXTS. 



THE song of this sprightly, showy bird, as I have 

 heard him, consists of one long, loud tone on E or 

 D, followed by a rather soft trill on the tonic, a sixth 

 higher. The most striking peculiarity of the performance 

 at the first hearing is that unless fortunate enough to see 

 as well as hear the bird, one will be sure there are two 

 singers, one singing the long note and the other the trill : 



"This species seems to have a special dislike to the 

 sea-coast," So says the close observer, Wilson ; but I 

 have found the chewink very much at home at different 

 points close to the sea. This bird, like many others, can 

 extemporize finely when the spirit moves him. For sev- 

 eral successive days, one season, a chewink gave me very 

 interesting exhibitions of the kind. He fairly revelled 

 in the new song, repeating it times without number. 

 Whether he stole it from the first strain of " Rock of 

 Ages " or it was stolen from him or some of his family, 

 is a question yet to be decided. 



