chewing

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With them the blue jays blew trumpets and clanged bells, the woodpeckers drummed and shrieked and crows and chewinks added to the clamor.

From Old Plymouth Trails by Packard, Winthrop

The young chewinks left their nests in the pasture on the third, and the chewink's feelings expressed themselves in song for two weeks after that.

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John

The lower limbs offered perches where doves might come to rest, finches to chatter, and chewinks to sing; while its hanging boughs and elm-like feathered sides attracted wandering warblers and songful wrens.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.

Instead of scratching up the leaves and earth with her feet as chewinks and sparrows do, the thrasher used her bill almost exclusively.

From A-Birding on a Bronco by Merriam, Florence A.

Young chewinks are being fed down among the ripening May-apples in the pasture.

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Lazell, Frederick John