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Wild Birds 



eaten only as a makeshift and mainly in the months of June 

 and July. 



Spring Robins reach Cleveland, Ohio, on the last days of 

 February or the first of March, central New Hampshire the 



Fig. 49. Female Robin in act of cleaning the nest. 



third week in March, and I have seen them in Burlington, Ver- 

 mont, on March 3oth. A few Bluebirds are usually reported on 

 the same day. In 1900, Robins were heard or seen in different 

 parts of Cleveland on the ninth of March, a mild, bright day, 

 while but a week before the country was in the grip of one of 

 the worst ice-storms ever known in this region. Every ex- 



