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One habit of the robin is not well known — that of the males 

 spending the nights during the breeding season in a grove, some 

 distance, often, from the nesting site. Innnense numbers of robins 

 gather at these "roosts" — as many as ten thousand have been 

 known to asHemble in one grove near Boston — though tlnough the 

 entire day they are devoted to their mates and assist in the process 

 of hatching the eggs and feeding the unfledged young. 



In the more southern districts the spring migrants arrive in 

 small, straggling parties, but in the Maritime Provinces the robins 

 from the south come in large flocks — thousands strong, accompanied 

 by song sparrows and j uncos. 



