ROBINS 635 



on throat, breast and abdomen with black ; chin and middle of belly white. 

 Wing 5.05 ; tail 4.20 ; culmen 0.88. 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America, west to the Rocky Mountains and 

 including eastern Mexico and Alaska ; breeding from the Southern States 

 northward to the Arctic coast ; wintering from southern Canada, New Bruns- 

 wick and Maine southward. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; abundant summer resident, (Johnson). 

 Arooostook ; common summer resident in the more settled districts, rather 

 rare in the thicker woods, and not very common in the Woolastook Valley, 

 (Knight). Cumberland; common summer resident, (Mead); seen at Cape 

 Elizabeth and Portland constantly in winter of 1904 and early in 1905, also 

 winter of 1906-1907, (Brownson, J. M. O. S. 1904, p. 50, ibid. 1905, p. 28, 1907, 

 p. 28). Franklin; common summer resident, (Richards). Hancock; common 

 summer resident, (Murch). Kennebec; abundant summer resident, (Gardi- 

 ner Branch). Knox; summer resident, (Rackliff). Lincoln; a flock of eight 

 seen January 23 and a flock of nine January 24, 1905, near Damariscotta, 

 (David, J. M. 0. S. 1906, p. 28). Penobscot; common to abundant in south- 

 ern sections, common northward save in the deeper woods, from April to 

 November, (Knight) ; one observed in Bangor several times in January, 

 February and March, 1907, (Elmer F. Cobb); one seen and heard singing 

 March 9, 1908, near my home in Bangor, (Mrs. 0. W. Knight). Piscataquis ; 

 common summer resident, (Homer). Sagadahoc; common summer resident, 

 (Spinney). Somerset; common summer resident, (Morrell) ; rare in many 

 portions of the northern wilderness in the deeper woods, (Knight) ; winter- 

 ing at Starks and Skowhegan in 1904-1905, (Swain, J. M. 0. S. 1905, p. 30). 

 Waldo; common summer resident, (Knight). Washington; abundant sum- 

 mer resident, (Boardman) ; two seen near Lubec in December, 1905, not as 

 plentiful as in previous winters, (Clark). York; formerly abundant summer 

 resident, wintered in 1888 and 1889, only two nests seen in 1896, (Adams) ; 

 a few wintered in 1898, intimately associated with several Flickers in a shel- 

 tered valley among the pines near the river at Eliot, (W. L. Fernald). 



As there have been very frequent records of the Robin win- 

 tering in Maine which were really cases of mistaken identity 

 in which the Pine Grosbeaks figured, it has been deemed advis- 

 able to admit only such winter records of the Robin as were 

 furnished by observers who were positively known to have 

 been absolutely unmistaken in their observations, and such 

 records included above show that the Robin probably winters 

 regularly along the coast in limited numbers. Elsewhere 

 inland it appears to be only a very rare winter straggler. 



In general the migrants arrive from the south in full force 

 about March thirteenth to April eighth in the vicinity of 



