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until they, too, disappear. They do not come in troops like Blackbirds, but the 

 whole air seems for a while to be filled with them, and standing in the marsh, 

 one can easily see that they come from all points of the compass, all aiming 

 toward a certain tract of reeds, a piece of about forty acres on some of the lowest 

 ground where the last remains of water are now vanishing, leaving heaps of dead 

 and dying fishes in the puddles (mostly dog, cat, and buffalo fishes). 



When unmolested the Robins are not long in settling down and out of sight 

 amongst the high and thickly matted reeds, and it is not nearly dark when the 

 last has disappeared and nothing indicates the presence of so many thousand 

 Robins but an occasional clatter, soon to give way to entire silence. If one enters 

 their domain at night, they start with a scold, one by one, and not until one 

 approaches very closely, to drop down again at no great distance. 



Associating with them in the roost sleep a goodly number of Rusty Blackbirds, 

 while the Bronzed Grackles keep somewhat apart. They arrive in troops with 

 the last Robins and leave also a little later in the morning. 



DISTRIBUTION 



Range. — From extreme northern continental America to Guatemala. 



Breeding range. — The robin breeds north to Alaska (Cape Prince of 

 Wales, rarely, the Jade Mountains, Alatna, Fort Yukon, and the 

 Porcupine River); northern Yukon (Old Crow River and Lapierre 

 House); northern Mackenzie (east branch of the Mackenzie Delta, 

 possibly the Arctic coast at Kittigazuit, Fort Anderson, Horton River, 

 Coppermine River at latitude 67° 20' N., and the Thelon River); 

 northern Manitoba (Cochrane River, Churchill, aud York Factory) ; 

 northern Ontario (Fort Severn and Moose Factory); and northern 

 Quebec (Great Whale River, Chimo, and Port Burwell, rarely). 

 East to northern Quebec (Port Burwell) ; the coast of Labrador (Ok- 

 kak, Nain, Hopedale, Rigolet, and Henley Harbor); Newfoundland 

 (St. Anthony, Humber River, and St. John's) ; Nova Scotia (Sidney, 

 Halifax, and Yarmouth, occasionally Sable Island); the Atlantic 

 Coast States south to North Carolina (Raleigh, aud has occurred in 

 summer near Cape Fear). South to North Carolina (Raleigh and 

 Charlotte); northern South Carolina (Rock Hill, Spartanburg, and 

 Greenville; rarely Columbia); northern Georgia (Brasstown Bald); 

 northern Alabama (Anniston and Birmingham ; rarely Montgomery) ; 

 northern Mississippi (Aberdeen); central and western Arkansas 

 (Helena, Hot Springs, Arkadelphia, and Delight) ; eastern Texas 

 (Tyler, Waco, Houston, and Somerset) ; western Tamaulipas (Galindo) ; 

 western Veracruz (Las Vegas, Jalapa, Cdrdoba, and Orizaba); and 

 Oaxaca (Toton tepee and Mount Zempoaltepec). West to Oaxaca 

 (Mount Zempoaltepec); Guerrero (Chilpancingo) ; Jalisco (Sierra de 

 Nayarit); Nayarit (Santa Teresa); western Durango (Durango and 

 El Salto) ; western Chihuahua (Pinos Altos) ; eastern Sonora (Alamos, 

 Mina Abundancis, and Oposura) ; eastern and central Arizona (Hua- 

 chuca Mountains, Tucson, Santa Catalina Mountains, and Prescott); 



