. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . rican Ornithologists UnionCheck List, is the handsome and common bird variouslyknown as Towhee or Chewink, and I have also heardit called Swamp Robin. This is the black and whitefellow, with brown markings, who plays hide and seekwith us in the bushy pasture, the scrub land, or alongthe roadside. He is bound to see who you are, butdoes not intend that you shall see him very much,though he calls out a pert inquiring tow-hee, orchewink, as he seems to different observers to say.But when he thinks there is no one around to botherhim,

. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . rican Ornithologists UnionCheck List, is the handsome and common bird variouslyknown as Towhee or Chewink, and I have also heardit called Swamp Robin. This is the black and whitefellow, with brown markings, who plays hide and seekwith us in the bushy pasture, the scrub land, or alongthe roadside. He is bound to see who you are, butdoes not intend that you shall see him very much,though he calls out a pert inquiring tow-hee, orchewink, as he seems to different observers to say.But when he thinks there is no one around to botherhim, Stock Photo
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. The sport of bird-study; a book for young or active people . rican Ornithologists UnionCheck List, is the handsome and common bird variouslyknown as Towhee or Chewink, and I have also heardit called Swamp Robin. This is the black and whitefellow, with brown markings, who plays hide and seekwith us in the bushy pasture, the scrub land, or alongthe roadside. He is bound to see who you are, butdoes not intend that you shall see him very much, though he calls out a pert inquiring tow-hee, orchewink, as he seems to different observers to say.But when he thinks there is no one around to botherhim, he stands up proudly on the top of a bare treethat towers above the thicket of scrub and sings ahappy and more pretentious song. The nest is hiddenaway in a brush heap or under a small bush and aboutthe only way I know of finding it is to flush from it thebrownish female, who will soon return with her black-gowned husband and set up a great outcry. Once Iwas shown a nest out in the open in the hollow of agrassy bank in a pasture. The female was in charge 172. Nest of Chippy. On my porch in the woodbine (p. 171).