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Illinois, obtained in spring and summer, are in the British Museum, as well as others from Michigan. 
On Mackinac Island, Mr. Whyte says that it is a common summer resident, being “ shy and a frequenter 
of the woods, rarely appearing in the towns " (Auk, x. p. 230). 
In Indiana, Mr. Eversmann records it as one of the commonest and best known of the summer 
residents, leaving so late in the autumn and returning so early in the spring as almost to appear a 
permanent resident (Auk, vi. p. 30). It is also a summer bird in Minnesota (Hatch, B. Minnesota, 
p. 442). In South-eastern Dakota, Mr. Agersborg states that the Robin is a not very abundant 
summer resident, but he has known it to winter on four occasions. Eggs ready to hatch were found 
as early as May (Auk, ii. p. 277). Dr. Elliott Coues writes :—' Found in abundance at Pembina, 
where it was breeding in the wooded river bottom. Іп this latitude the eggs are laid during the 
middle and latter parts of June, and I scarcely think that more than one brood is reared annually. 
Further westward the species seems to occur chiefly during the migrations, as most of the country is 
unsuited to its wants. In September, large numbers were observed in the fringes of trees along the 
Mouse River. During the second season the birds were again found on the Upper Missouri River 
and in the Rocky Mountains. On the whole, the species is much less numerous, excepting in the 
immediate valley of the Red River, than it isin settled and wooded portions of the United States, and 
probably none pass the winter in this latitude " (Bull. U.S. Geol. Surv. iv. p. 549). 
The species breeds in Kansas, according to the “А. O. U. Check-list” (p. 320) and in Virginia. 
Mr. Rives (Auk, vi. p. 52) says that in the White Top Mountains, in the last-named State, “ Robins 
were to be found even above 5000 feet," and not far from the top he caught a young bird. 
In Kentucky it is a common winter visitant, according to Mr. Pindar(Auk, vi. p. 216), and it is 
found in Missouri in winter also (Wiedmann, Auk, xiii. p. 219). Mr. Fox, in his list of birds of 
Roane Co., Tennessee (Auk, iii. p. 315), says that he found it “ abundant in large flocks during March, 
and it was common until the middle of April in 1884, but was scarce after the 1st of April in 1885, 
the flocks keeping entirely to the woods until the end of March. It was nesting on the 7th of 
April, 1884." 
In the mountains of North Carolina Mr. Batchelder found the species in winter (Auk, iii. p. 314), 
and Mr. Loomis observed it on migration in Chester Co. (Auk, ix. p. 29), but it breeds in western 
North Carolina, as is seen from the following note by Mr. Sennett :—“* Rarely seen in the lowlands, 
but common on the summit of Roan Mountain, where I found two nests with eggs in the balsams 
(altitude 6300 feet) Others were brought to me which had been taken in the woods far from any 
habitation" (Auk, iv. p. 245). Mr. Brewster likewise observes :—“ Irregularly but very generally 
distributed in western North Carolina, from the lowest valleys, if not quite to the summit of the 
highest mountains. Іп the low country it was seen only in or near towns, where it had all the 
familiar habits of our northern bird; but on the sides and tops of the mountains it occurred miles 
away from any house or clearing, and in the wildest possible places. It was most numerous at 
Highlands, and on the Black Mountain between 4000 and 5000 feet. "Throughout the entire 
mountain region its song and habits seemed to be perfectly natural. A female shot on the 
27th of May was laying. This and another specimen (male, May 28) are smaller than northern 
specimens, and the throat in both is nearly immaculate." 
Mr. W. E. D. Scott states (Auk, vii. p. 120) that on the Gulf Coast of Florida the Robin is 
*an irregular migrant, but present in small numbers almost every year, and sometimes abundant. 
Appears late in December and remains till the 10th of March, which is its latest record. Mr. Atkins 
says it was irregular in its visits to Punta Rassa, but was common at Key West in December and 
January, 1887." Меввів. Brewster and Chapman (Auk, viii. p. 138) noticed it on the Suwanee 
River from March 11th to April 1st, and Mr. Scott in the Caloosahatchie Region between Nov. 21st 
and April 26th (Auk, ix. p. 214). At Gainesville Mr. Chapman (Auk, v. p. 277) says that it was 
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