CHEWINK; TOWHEE BUNTING ; 
GROUND ROBIN. 
PIPILO ERYTHROPHTHALMUS. 
HE 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: 
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“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. 
