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and whose plumage is also very beautiful, while 

 its peculiarly sweet and joyous warble is a surer 

 sign of approaching spring than is the ap])ear- 

 ance of its larger relative. For. although prac- 

 tically all of the Robins who breed in the tem- 

 perate zone migrate to warmer latitudes in the 

 autumn, their places arc taken bv liirds who have 

 bred further north, so that the species is usually 

 well represented in its northern range even in 

 the dead of winter and where the snow lies deep. 

 At these times, and especially when the weather 



is very severe, the Robins are most likel\- to be 

 fiiund in wooded swamps, where there is plentv 

 .if cover. 



The Piluel)ird also disjilays charming confi- 

 dence in the friendliness of luan, and occasionally 

 stays in the north during the winter months; 

 but the Robin is, after all, the more characteristic 

 (if the two birds, and the more in evidence, too. 

 because of its fondness for the lawns, and the 

 trustfidness which it displays by building its 

 nest and rearing its lusty family ( who also take 



Drawing hy R. T. Brasher 



ROBIN l; nat. size) 

 Everybody knows the Robin and ought to welcome and protect him 



