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Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Banta, Nathaniel Moore, 1867- Schneider, Albert, 1863- Higley, William Kerr, 1860-1908 Abbott, Gerard Alan
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: Chicago, American Audobon association
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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One or two have been sotame that I have had to put my hand out as if to touchthem, in order to drive them from the nest. Sometimes it sings during the winter in Florida, andalso while migrating; but if you would hear this inspiredsongster at his best you must visit him in his summer home.The hermit thrushs song resembles that of the wood thrushin form, but it is more tender and serene. *0 spheral,spheral! O holy, holy! Mr. Burroughs writes as its open-ing notes, and there is something about the words whichseem to express the spirit of heavenly peace with which thebirds song is imbued. (Chapman.) The nest of moss,coarse grass, and leaves, lined with pine needles and root-lets, is placed on the ground, generally under a low fir tree.Three or four greenish-blue eggs are laid. ROBIN The range of the Robin is eastern North America tothe Rocky Mountains, breeding from the northern part ofthe Gulf States to the Arctic Ocean, and wintering fromIllinois and New Jersey southward. From the Rocky
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o£ THRUSHES 459 Mountains westward a paler plumaged bird, called theWestern robin, is found, with habits similar to those of therobin east of the Great Plains. Robins join us north of the Ohio early in March, imme-diately announcing their presence by warbling gently, per-haps in the immediate vicinity of their last years nest.The migrating robins which go north of us to spend thesummer are not so partial to habited sections until theyreach their destination, and are more apt to be found insmall flocks in wooded pastures, parks, or underbrush. The robin feeds largely upon earth worms, grubs, ber-ries, and is particularly fond of cherries. So persistent arethey in raiding the fruit trees during cherry time that somefarmers forget the birds many virtues and destroy them.They are found in large flocks in the South, where the pothunters bag them. A friend gives the following account of the robins indus-try, and the sparrows adaptation of means to ends: Iobserved a robin with about twenty

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