170 BIRD NOTES 



She is as shy as ever, but comes in and out con- 

 tinually to a plate of bacon placed on the easel or 

 table for her, and she evidently looks to me to put 

 it there, although she does not like me to look at 

 her, or speak to her. So unlike most robins ! 



M.'s Bob, the mate, we think, of Specs, is as 

 sociable as ever, and comes to her directly she 

 calls him. He has only paid me one visit. I 

 think that, as usual, he takes half the brood about 

 with him, and she the other. They must have 

 three or four children, to judge from the amount of 

 food they take away. 



September 9, 1892. 



My robin has grown so splendid ; I see him 

 sometimes sitting lost, apparently, in contempla- 

 tion of his bosom. He trots upstairs now and 

 then after Mrs. Halse, and comes constantly into 

 the hall with me, and is quite affectionate. But 

 an old robin tries to drive him away ; and he gets 

 behind me in the garden when he hears the old 

 one coming. 



December 28, 1892. 



It is seldom I am able to go into the garden, 

 but if I do, there is Bobinette who rushes at me, 

 flutters about me with unmistakable delight till 

 I reach the sea-kale pots, where she takes her ex- 

 pectant stand till I come up, and sometimes even 

 after, till I have to ask for my seat. She is well 



