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There are a number of natural sounds that resemble more or less closely the most unbirdlike note of this warbler—cicada, rattlesnake, and some batrachians.

From Birds in Town and Village by Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

It was evidently as big or bigger than a barn owl, and, to his practised eye, its flight and particularly the misty whirl of its wings must have seemed weirdly unbirdlike.

From The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

"Bub-loo, bub-loo maroo," he says over and over again in unbirdlike tone, without emphasis or lilt.

From Confessions of a Beachcomber by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)