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 Ground Robin, though he is no relation of the Thrush family.
"Meanwhile his wife stays quietly on the nest, where her brown back matches the dead leaves of which it is made outside, keeping her quite safe from sight.
"In the afternoon, when the work of the day is almost over, and her mate is tired of scratching about for food, he takes a little rest and goes up high in a tree to boldly declare his whereabouts.
"'Jore-e Blur-re, Jore-e Blur-re, willy-nilly, willy-nilly!' he calls defiantly, as if he did not like having to keep quiet all day, and meant to tell his name at last.
"In early autumn the Joree family grow sociable enough to come into the garden, but they seldom linger late; vigorous as they are, they hurry southward before any hard frosts come." The Towhee Length about eight and a half inches.
Male: black with chestnut sides, white belly, tan-colored under the tail, the side feathers of which are white-tipped.
Female: reddish-brown where the male is black.
A Summer Citizen of the United States east of the plains, and along the southern border of Canada.

Nests northward from Georgia.

Winters south of the Middle States.
A Ground Gleaner, Seed Sower, and Weed Warrior.
THE CARDINAL (THE CARDINAL GROSBEAK) "There is a legend about this Cardinal--the soldier with a red uniform," said the Doctor; "one of Mammy Bun's strange stories that came from the Indians to the negroes, always growing larger and stranger.
"There were two Indian warriors of the southwest that hated each other.
One had an only daughter and the other a son.

While their fathers were at war, this boy and girl met in the green forest.

The old women of their tribes told them that they must never speak to each other, or their fathers would surely kill them.