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results, of course. so he hurried back and surveyed himself again. He 
grew quite excited and ruffled his feathers as he looked at the bird in the 
glass, Then he would look behind the glass again and again, each trip 
seeming more hurried than the one before, as if he were thinking he might, 
by hurrying. get there before the other bird could get away, Well, I 
watched that Robin long enough to convince me that it had some reasoning 
faculty. Don’t you think it had?” 
Some times robins gather up in great numbers and roost together at night 
in some selected place. In the fall of 1SS7 (1 think it was; my notes were 
lost in the Indiana State Normal School fire of March 8, 1888), thousands 
of robins roosted for several nights in a grove of pine trees near Cataract, 
Owen County. Just before dusk robins in great numbers were seen coming 
in from all directions. to spend the night in these trees. Just when and 
in what manner they left I had no opportunity to determine. 
A few definite dates for the various counties follow: 
Carroll County: January 25, 1879, a few seen: they acted as if lost; 
March 5, one seen. June 19, 1882, nest with two fresh eggs. May 24, 1885, 
nest with four fresh eggs. February 5, 1884. saw two near John T. St. 
John’s on Wild Cat Creek, Democrat Township. The weather had been very 
cold since December until February 3. and during the night of February 4-5 
rain had fallen almost continuously ; February 25, saw several in Camden. 
I think they had come from the north, the weather having been quite cold 
for the last few days; April 10, saw a pair building a nest in a pine tree 
in A. A. McKinney’s yard in Camden; May 4, this nest contained young 
birds; May 5, saw a nest on eave of Baptist church in Camden. March 8, 
1885. first of season seen at Burlington: March 11-13. common; April 26, 
found first nest, with four fresh eggs. in a cedar tree in my yard in Camden. 
February 7, 1908, one seen in orchard in Burlington. While this is the only 
one I saw. I was told that several remained all winter along the small 
stream which runs through the village. Miss Evermann saw three at 
Kokomo March 5, 1920, and several next day. 
Monroe County: May 5, 1882. set of four eggs slightly incubated. A few 
(five or six) seen February 10, 1883, and a great number, perhaps 500, six 
days later. Full sets of eggs found May 5. 
Vigo County: February 23, 1888, one seen; others noted March 3; Janu- 
ary 18, 1890, three seen on Honey Creek south of Terre Haute. 
An albino was taken at Terre Haute many years ago by the late Dr. J. T. 
Scovell. 
237. SITALIA SIALIS SIALIS (Linneeus). BLUEBIRD. (766) 
Formerly an abundant summer resident, now much reduced in numbers as 
a result of the clearing up of the land with the consequent destruction of 
favorable nesting places, and of persecutions of various kinds. 
With us the Bluebird is always associated with the robin. These are the 
two birds that were most familiar and best known to country boys and girls 
in Indiana 30 to 50 years ago. They returned from the south about the 
same time each spring, frequented the same parts of the farm, were equally 
familiar and confiding, built their nests close about the homes and. in the 
fall, departed for the south at about the same time. Their coming in the 
