J30 Birds Every Child Should Know 
to the door ; or even on the window-sill. 
The song, the English, the chipping, the field, 
and the white-throated sparrows — any one or 
all of these cousins — usually hop about with 
the chewinks most amicably and with no 
greater ease of manner ; but the larger chewink 
hops more energetically and precisely than any 
of them, like a mechanical toy. 
Heretofore I had thought of this large, vigor- 
ous bunting as a rather shy or at least self- 
sufficient bird with no desire to be neighbourly. 
His readiness to be friends when sure of the 
genuiness of the invitation, was a delightful 
surprise. From late April until late October 
my softly-whistled towhee has, rarely failed to 
bring a response from some pensioner, either in 
the woodland thicket or among the rhododen- 
drons next the piazza where the seeds have 
been scattered by the wind. Chewink, or towhee 
comes the brisk call from wherever the busy 
bunting is foraging. The chickadee, whippoor- 
will, phoebe and pewee also tell you their 
names, but this bird announces himself by two 
names, so you need make no mistake. 
Because he was hatched in a ground nest and 
loves to scratch about on the ground for insects, 
making the dead leaves and earth rubbish fly 
like any barnyard fowl, the towhee it often 
called the ground robin. He is a little smaller 
than robin-redbreast. Looked down upon from 
