It is no "chewink" at all, but almost as close a reproduction of a cat's mew as is the catbird's well-known call.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

In his attire he closely resembles the towhee, or "chewink," of the East, but has as an extra ornament a beautiful sprinkling of white on his back and wings, which makes him look as if he had thrown a gauzy mantle of silver over his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

The chewink is a shy bird, but not stealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

The chewink is a curious exchange for the robin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

The chewink is a shy bird also, but not stealthy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

That is why the chewink sings so happily from dawn till dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference

The road robin or chewink is fairly common in the thickets above the Lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lake of the Sky Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras of California and Nevada, its History, Indians, Discovery by Frémont, Legendary Lore, Various Namings, Physical Characteristics, Glacial Phenomena, Geology, Single Outlet, Automobile Routes, Historic Towns, Early Mining Excitements, Steamer Ride, Mineral Springs, Mountain and Lake Resorts, Trail and Camping Out Trips, Summer Residences, Fishing, Hunting, Flowers, Birds, Animals, Trees, and Chaparral, with a Full Account of the Tahoe National Forest, the Public Use of the Water of Lake Tahoe and Much Other Interesting Matter] Reference

In neighborly association with the brown thrush is the towhee bunting, or chewink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Swallows were flying about us, and the chewink and cuckoo were heard near at hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excursions] Reference

The chewink is more constant in his visits, as is also the golden-winged woodpecker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

Still another musician who delights to take liberties with his score is the towhee bunting, or chewink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

From -- -- one could not see where, came a vireo, and almost at the same time a chewink had something to say.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Harvester] Reference

Across the fields in the early morning I hear some of the rare April birds, -- the chewink and the brown thrasher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Poets : with Other Papers] Reference

Wilson's thrush; chewink, 32; fly-catcher; bluebird; oven-bird; cat-bird; phoebe, 40; bobolink; "reed-bird," 53; humming, 227.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference

Familiar as the chewink might be about our quarters, his own home was well hidden, on the rising ground leading up to the mesa.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

But whatever his lineage, it is plain that the chewink is not a bird to be governed very strictly by the traditions of the fathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

His habit is continued in the spring by the towhee, or chewink, who uses the same methods, throwing both feet backward simultaneously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

Jays were as loud and busy as at the North in autumn; there were sparrows and wrens; and sometimes I noticed the shy and whimsical chewink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Life in a Black Regiment]

It is not a bird that skulks and hides, like the catbird, the brown thrasher, the chat, or the chewink, and its nest is not concealed with the same art as theirs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference

I did miss his voice in the morning chorus, -- the one who lived in the grove was not much of a singer, -- but I was glad to know the chewink, who was almost a stranger.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

Some crows followed the workers at a distance, hunting for grains of corn, and over in the woods, a chewink scratched and rustled among the deep leaves as it searched for grubs.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Foot of the Rainbow] Reference

There wasa chewink in the Stanley woods, that brought off a brood of four, under the safe shelter of a rank thistle leaf, in the midst of trampling herds of cattle driven wild by flies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moths of the Limberlost] Reference

My notes say that it is "a cross between the song of the chewink and that of dickcissel," and I shall stand by that assertion until I find good reason to disown it -- should that time ever come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of the Rockies] Reference

On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whippoorwill, the brown-thrasher, the veery, the wood-pewee, the chewink, and other birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden, or Life in the woods] Reference

On the third or fourth of May I saw a loon in the pond, and during the first week of the month I heard the whip-poor-will, the brown thrasher, the veery, the wood pewee, the chewink, and other birds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walden] Reference

It is very droll to see one of his family take part in the clamors of a bird mob, perching like his bigger fellows, and adding his excited cries to the notes of catbird and robin, chewink and yellow-bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

A few song sparrows, a cat-bird or two, a chewink or two, a field sparrow, and perhaps a Maryland yellow-throat might be seen above the last houses, but as a general thing the bushes and trees were deserted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Foot-path Way] Reference

Some people think he says 'chewink! chewink!' and call him by that name; while some who have noticed where he lives, and seen that the color of his sides is like the reddish breast of the Robin, call him the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference

On the same hillside is always to be found the chewink, -- a creature whose dress and song are so unlike those of the rest of his tribe that the irreverent amateur is tempted to believe that, for once, the men of science have made a mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds in the Bush] Reference

If it were not for the light-hearted tremolo of the chewink thrown in now and then, and the loud, cheery ditty of the summer yellow-bird, who begins soon after the pewee, one would be almost superstitious about so unnatural a greeting to the new day.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bird-Lover in the West] Reference

The flirting chewink calls his dear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Songs out of Doors] Reference

My footstep scares the shy chewink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference

“He may and not care and so leave the chewink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blueberries] Reference

But the chewink was not to be sobered so quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Some Summer Days in Iowa] Reference

Canada flycatcher, oven-bird, king-bird, cat-bird, phoebe, Wilson's thrush, chewink, and wood-thrush.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Studio Neighbors] Reference