ROBIN ROOSTS. 
‘¢ From every side they hurried in, 
Rubbing their sleepy eyes.” 
KEATS. 
Or all the nearly eight hundred species of 
North American birds, the robin is without 
question the one most generally known. Its 
great commonness and wide distribution have 
something to do with this fact, but can 
hardly be said to account for it altogether. 
The red-eyed vireo has almost as extensive 
a range, and at least in New England is 
possibly more numerous; but except among 
ornithologists it remains a stranger, even to 
country-bred people. The robin owes its 
universal recognition partly to its size and 
perfectly distinctive dress, partly to its early 
arrival in the spring, but especially to the 
nature of its nesting and feeding habits, 
which bring it constantly under every one’s 
eye. 
It would seem impossible, at this late day, 
