Robin 



p c i Redbreasts sing all through the spring, summer, 



and autumn. 



The reason that they are called autumn song- 

 sters is, because in the two first seasons their 

 voices are lost and drowned in the general chorus : in the latter, 

 their song becomes distinguishable. 



Many songsters of the autumn seem to be the young cock red- 

 breast of that year. 



Wrens sing all the winter through, frost excepted. G. W. 



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