ROBIN ROOSTS. 171 



July 3 247 July 16 1064 



" 5 383 17 1333 



"6 356 19 1584 



" 10 765 22 1520 



" 12 970 23 1453 



" 14 1120 27 2314 



After July 6th all the enumerations were 

 made with the help of another man, though 

 we stood side by side, and covered no more 

 ground than I had hitherto attempted to 

 compass alone. The figures of the 27th 

 were far in excess of any obtained in 1889, 

 and for a day I was disposed to take seri- 

 ously the suggestion of a friend that some 

 other roost must have been broken up and 

 its members turned into the Melrose gather- 

 ing. But on the evening of the 28th I tried 

 a count by myself, and made only 1517 

 birds ! The conditions were favorable, and 

 the robins came, as they had come the night 

 before, in flocks, almost in continuous 

 streams. The figures had fallen off, not be- 

 cause there were fewer birds, but because 

 I was unable to count them. They were lit- 



year, but occasionally I have detected an adult male." 

 He examined the birds at near range, and at rest, after 

 they had come into the roost in the earlier part of the 

 evening. 



