. Pine Hills bird notes . ngThe reveille of spring, Robins come! Ring it out oer hill and plain,Through the gardens lonely bowers. Till the green leaves dance again,Till the air is sweet with flowers; Wake the cowslips by the rill, Wake the yellow daffodil!Robins come! LONGED for, looked for, here at last! Overmountain, down valley, across country toPine Hills, songsparrow, first bird of the season,avant courier of the aerial hosts that will buildtheir homes and summer with us! Here for aday only, but what matters that so long as hetold us what we wanted most to know, thatwinter had packed his
. Pine Hills bird notes . ngThe reveille of spring, Robins come! Ring it out oer hill and plain,Through the gardens lonely bowers. Till the green leaves dance again,Till the air is sweet with flowers; Wake the cowslips by the rill, Wake the yellow daffodil!Robins come! LONGED for, looked for, here at last! Overmountain, down valley, across country toPine Hills, songsparrow, first bird of the season,avant courier of the aerial hosts that will buildtheir homes and summer with us! Here for aday only, but what matters that so long as hetold us what we wanted most to know, thatwinter had packed his grip and was about toabdicate in favor of spring? To-day songspar-row is here again with his associates, robin andbluebird. The trio are always our first springbirds. Sometimes one leads in the arrival,sometimes two, and often by The gentle law that each should beThe others heaven and harmony, the three sail in together. We give them ourhearts greeting, for however the world goes ill,these birds will sing in it still. 17. The robin, who, by the way, is not a robin, buta thrush, belongs to the Turdidae family, a small,refined and highly distinguished family. Hisname, robin, was given him by the PuritanFathers because of a fancied resemblance to theso-called robin redbreast of England. Nor isthis famous robin redbreast of English story arobin. He is a stone-chat, of an historic, old-world family. Owing to his red breast, and be-cause Robert and Robin were once favorite andfamous names, he was called robin — robin red-breast. Who has not heard the story of robin red-breast and The Children in the Woods, orread that ancient Scottish pastoral of Robin,and of Robin Goodfellow, and of RobinHood, and Auld Robin Gray and RobinAdair ? In our bluebird we have a near relative of thiswidely known robin redbreast. They inheritalike from blueblooded ancestry, of which blue-bird and one other, wheat-ear, are the sole repre-sentatives in this country. And our bluebird here at home is often c
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