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AMERICAN ROBIN. 

 761. Plancsticus migratorius. 10 inches. 



Male with a hlaek ho;ul and bright reddish-brown 

 bivast : tVuuilo with a gray head ami nuu'h paler breast : 

 young intermediate between the two and with a reddish- 

 brown breast spotted with blaek. 



These well-known birds are very abundant in the 

 northern half of the I'nited States. hoiug found most 

 eoinmonly about farms and dwellings in the eonntry, 

 and also'in eities if they are not persoouted too so\e ; v'.y 

 by Knglish Sparnnv-. 



Song. A loud eheery earol. vhoerily-oluvrup. eheer- 

 ily-eheorup/' often long 'continued. 



Nest. A coarse but substantial strueture of nuul 

 and urass, plaetnl on horizontal boughs or in forks at 

 any height, or in any odd phuv about dwellings: the 

 tour or Vivo ogga are bluish green (1.15 x .80). 



Range. Eastern N. A., breeding from the middle of 

 the V. 8. northward: winters throughout the I s. 

 7(51 b. Southern Robin (achrustera) is a paler form 

 found in the Carolinas and l^oorgia. 



