. Western birds . Copyright by Brown BLUEBIRDS. WESTERN BIRDS Robin over the lawn, stopping abruptly and with head cockedon one side to inspect a possible find, delving down andbringing up a worm, is familiar to all dwellers eastof the Great Plains. They place their nests in trees, buildings, walls, al-most any place will do, building large, bulky affairs oftwigs and leaves, rags and string, binding all togetherwith mud, which Madam pounds in with her feet as shesits in the nest. The eggs are a beautiful green-bluecolor, which is much used by mortals, being calledRobins-egg-bl
. Western birds . Copyright by Brown BLUEBIRDS. WESTERN BIRDS Robin over the lawn, stopping abruptly and with head cockedon one side to inspect a possible find, delving down andbringing up a worm, is familiar to all dwellers eastof the Great Plains. They place their nests in trees, buildings, walls, al-most any place will do, building large, bulky affairs oftwigs and leaves, rags and string, binding all togetherwith mud, which Madam pounds in with her feet as shesits in the nest. The eggs are a beautiful green-bluecolor, which is much used by mortals, being calledRobins-egg-blue. The young birds have speckled breastsand backs for the first weeks of their existence. It is the habit of the male birds and young to congre-gate in trees for the night, the males returning in theday-time to assist the female with her second Torrey, in The Foot-path Way, gives a won-derful account of a Robin roost which he watched inMassachusetts, July, 1889. He found them going to anisolated pi
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