Citations:choochkie


 * 1879, Harper's Magazine, volume 58, page 502:
 * They make no nests, and the choochkie has but one wife. She lays a single pure white egg, which is unusually largo compared with the size and weight of its small parent; this is deposited on the bare rock or earth[.]


 * 1898, Henry W. Elliott, a work published in the United States Congressional serial set, issue 3578, page 223:
 * 36. Phaleris psittacula. Parroquet Auk; "Baillie Brushkie."
 * Like Simorhynchus cristatellus, it will breed in company with the "choochkie," but will not follow that lively relative back upon the uplands, for the "baillie brushkie" is always found on the shore line, and there only.
 * Like Simorhynchus cristatellus, it will breed in company with the "choochkie," but will not follow that lively relative back upon the uplands, for the "baillie brushkie" is always found on the shore line, and there only.


 * 1905, Eliza A. (Wetherley) Otis, California. "Where sets the sun". The writings of Eliza A., page 74:
 * And here the choochkie, with its coat of brown,
 * Just touched with white, as if some falling snow-
 * Flake brushed its wings, chirps through the gloomy
 * Summer, and twitters to its young within
 * Their grassy nest;


 * 1908, Frank Finn, The World's Birds: A Simple and Popular Classification of the Birds of the World, page 4:
 * The extinct Great Auk (Alca impennis) was far the largest of the family, and the only flightless member of it, the wings being far too small for flight. The smallest is the Choochkie (Simorhynchus pusillus) of Alaska, a very common bird and an important article of food.


 * 1957, Roger Tory Peterson, The Bird Watcher's Anthology, page 216:
 * While standing on the bird cliffs I remembered an aquatint sketch that H. W. Elliott made eighty-one Julys earlier, a galaxy of oreels (red-faced cormorants), chikies (glaucous-winged gulls), baillie brushkies (paroquet auklets), canooskies (crested auklets), choochkies (least auklets), and arries (murres).