. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . sed, so tender and solici-tous, so deliciously sweet-voiced .^ With fuller, richer songthan the warbling vireos, which Nuttall has said it resembles, aperfect ecstasy of love pours incessantly from his throat duringthe early summer days. There is a suggestion of the robinslove-song in his, but its copiousness, variety, and rapidity giveit a character all its own. In some old, neglected hedge or low tree about the country-place a flat, grassy nest,
. Bird neighbors : an introductory acquaintance with one hundred and fifty birds commonly found in the gardens, meadows, and woods about our homes . sed, so tender and solici-tous, so deliciously sweet-voiced .^ With fuller, richer songthan the warbling vireos, which Nuttall has said it resembles, aperfect ecstasy of love pours incessantly from his throat duringthe early summer days. There is a suggestion of the robinslove-song in his, but its copiousness, variety, and rapidity giveit a character all its own. In some old, neglected hedge or low tree about the country-place a flat, grassy nest, lined with horsehair, contains four orfive green eggs in June, and the old birds are devotion itself toeach other, and soon to their young, sparrowy brood. But when parental duties are over, the finches leave ourlawns and gardens to join flocks of their own kind in more re-mote orchards or woods, their favorite haunts. Their subduedwarble may be heard during October and later, as if the birdswere humming to themselves. Much is said of their fondness for fruit blossoms and treebuds, but the truth is that noxious insects and seeds of grain 224. Conspicuously Red of any Shade constitute their food in summer, the berries of evergreens inwinter. To a bird so gay of color, charming of voice, social, andtrustful of disposition, surely a few blossoms might be sparedwithout grudging. The American Robin (Merula migratoria) Thrush family Called also: RED-BREASTED OR MIGRATORY THRUSH;ROBIN-REDBREAST Length—lo inches. Male—DuW brownish olive-gray above. Head black; tail brown-ish black, with exterior feathers white at inner tip. Wingsdark brownish. Throat streaked with black and eyelids. Entire breast bright rusty red; whitish belowthe tail. Fe7nale—Duller and with paler breast, resembling the male inautumn. Range—North America, from Mexico to arctic regions. Migrations—March. October or November. Often residentthroughout the year. It seems almost superfluous to write
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