chebec
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of chebec
Imitative
Example Sentences
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You may know that the chebec is not one of those deliberate searchers of foliage by his sudden, murderous sallies in mid-air.
From Birds Every Child Should Know by Blanchan, Neltje
One who loves birds once saw this Flycatcher flying in a circle and repeating breathlessly his emphatic chebec.
From Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897 by Various
Notes. a vigorous chebec, chebec; rarely a flight song, "chebec, tooral-ooral."
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
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