Cock Robin's Counterfeits 



haunts the pretty song which he will constantly 

 repeat in confinement, especially if unmated. 

 Taken altogether, this bird presents more at- 

 tractive points than many far better known and 

 more widely praised, and is an excellent ex- 

 ample of beauty blushing unseen, for he is 

 rather wasted on Himalayan brakes. I can 

 only hope that when people have got over the 

 horror of acclimatisation with which too suc- 

 cessful experiments with sparrows and rabbits 

 have filled them, this pretty bird will be in- 

 vited to dwell in any country where his hardy 

 constitution and omnivorous habits will allow 

 him to live — not as a captive merely, but as a 

 woodland bird. The Devonshire hills would 

 suit him admirably, and he might fill in that 

 most lovely of English counties the place of the 

 missing nightingale, while in the United States 

 and our Australasian colonies there must be 

 many districts where he would thrive. 



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