Some Robins' Nests 



By WILBUR F. SMITH, South Norwalk, Conn. 

 With Photographs by the Author. 



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had 



A ROBIN'S NEST ON A 



the persons interested, and 

 correct, that the leaven of 

 a description of these nests 

 becomes worth while. 



One nest was built on 

 the hub of a farm wagon left 

 for awhile in the orchard. 

 When the owner went to 

 use the wagon he found 

 four eggs in the nest, and 

 he borrowed a neighbor's 

 wagon until the young had 

 flown. 



* Another Robin built a 

 nest on the smoke-pipe 

 where it came through the 

 back of a building. It, too, 

 had eggs in it when found, 

 and to make a fire in the 

 stove meant destroying the 

 eggs, so the owner built a 

 shelf against the building 

 and moved the nest to it, 

 where it was occupied by 



FRIEND who 



visited Gardiner's 

 Island told me of 

 the remarkable tameness of 

 the birds nesting there, 

 which he claimed was due 

 to the long years of protec- 

 tion they had had on the 

 island. Some Robins, whose 

 nests I have studied in the 

 past few years, show an equal 

 confidence and tameness on 

 the part of the birds, and a 

 care and consideration for 

 their safety on the part of 

 t would seem that if my friend's deductions are 

 bird-protection is working in Connecticut, when 



WHEEL-HUB 



A ROBIN'S NEST ON A SMOKE-PIPE WITH THE 

 SHELF TO WHICH IT WAS MOVED 



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