We heard the sound of the chickaree, and a few faintly lisping birds, and also of ducks in the water about the island. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
As I walk amid hickories, even in August, I hear the sound of green pig-nuts falling from time to time, cut off by the chickaree over my head. From Wordnik.com. [Excursions] Reference
He paused every few steps to utter the peculiar cry which has given then the name of chickaree, for they often repeat it, and are noisy little creatures. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
It was a purely wild and primitive American sound, as much as the barking of a chickaree, and I could not understand a syllable of it; but Paugus, had he been there, would have understood it. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Occasionally a chickaree or chipmunk scurried out from among the trunks of the great pines to pick up the cones which he had previously bitten off from the upper branches; a noisy Clarke's crow clung for some time in the top of a hemlock; and occasionally flocks of cross-bill went by, with swift undulating flight and low calls. From Wordnik.com. [The Big-Horn Sheep] Reference
Eastern relative the chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Alaska] Reference
No, you don't — chickaree — chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [Walden~ Chapter 17 (historical)] Reference
They are the Douglas or chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [The Bellingham Herald: Sports News] Reference
No you don't -- chickaree -- chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [Walden, or Life in the woods] Reference
No, you don't -- chickaree -- chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
No, you don’t — chickaree — chickaree. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
Dogwood blossom, chickaree, corn lily, snow plant. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-22] Reference
Or the larger red squirrel or chickaree, sometimes called the Hudson Bay squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius), gave warning of our approach by that peculiar alarum of his, like the winding up of some strong clock, in the top of a pine-tree, and dodged behind its stem, or leaped from tree to tree with such caution and adroitness, as if much depended on the fidelity of his scout, running along the white-pine boughs sometimes twenty rods by our side, with such speed, and by such unerring routes, as if it were some well-worn familiar path to him; and presently, when we have passed, he returns to his work of cutting off the pine-cones, and letting them fall to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers] Reference
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