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* abundant in large flocks, and in full song until December 31, no songs being heard later. The 
greater portion of their number had departed March 15, but several birds were seen in April. On 
the 11th, 21st, and 27th, one was observed each day.” Mr. Wayne has also noticed the species in 
the Wacissa and Ancilla regions of Florida (Auk, xii. p. 366). 
In Louisiana Mr. Coombs states that the Robin is abundant in flocks during winter, sometimes 
lingering as late as March 17th (Auk, ix. p. 206). Mr. Beckham, in his paper on the birds of 
Bayou Sara in the same State, says they appear there in large numbers in February to feed on the 
fruit of the wild peach, when hundreds are shot for the table (Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 160). 
According to Mr. Dresser (Ibis, 1865, p. 475), this species was “not uncommon near San 
Antonio in Texas during winter, and found more abundantly during a severe ‘norther.’” Mr. Attwater 
(Auk, ix. p. 345) found it an abundant migrant near San Antonio. Mr. N. C. Brown states that it 
was irregularly abundant at Boerne; and Mr. С. W. Beckham writes :—“ A good many Robins were 
seen during the winter and as late as March 20th at San Antonio, and they were quite common near 
Corpus Christi, but whether they were М. migratoria proper, or M. propinqua, Y am unable to say. 
Of the three specimens collected at Corpus Christi, only one can be referred to the eastern form ” 
(Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 695). Four specimens obtained by Mr. F. B. Armstrong at Corpus 
Christi in November, and now in the Salvin-Godman Collection, are all true T. migratorius. 
Mr. Nehrling says that it was very common in the woods in Техав from November to April 
(Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii. p. 6); and in Western Техав, Mr. Lloyd found it tolerably common in 
spring and fall, a few wintering in the river bottoms and abundantly further south (Auk, iv. p. 298). 
From the above note of Mr. Beckham's, it is evident that both eastern and western races of the 
“Robin” winter in Texas, as they do further south. Тһе Salvin-Godman Collection contains 
examples from La Parada (A. Boucard) and Villa Alta in Oaxaca CM. Trujillo). The specimen shot 
by Mr. Salvin at Coban in Vera Paz, Guatemala, in January 1860, is also referable to the true 
T. migratorius. 
In the West Indies it is only known as an accidental visitor to Cuba (Cory, Auk, iii. p. 8). 
A specimen of the American Robin was found in Heligoland on the 14th of October, 1874, and 
Gütke believed that it was a visitor from Asia, as “there occurred in that year a very powerful 
migration of species from the east" (B. Heligoland, Engl. ed. p. 255). Тһе species has been 
captured in England at Dover, in the spring of 1876 (Harting, Zool. 1877, p. 14), and on the 
Continent of Europe at least four times, once near Berlin, twice near Vienna, and once in Bohemia. 
I have taken the following account of the habits of the American Robin from the recent work 
of Mr. Nehrling, as he not only gives very good original observations, but also embodies the pith of 
those of other observers :— 
“Тһе early spring flowers still sleep beneath snow and ice, the cold north and west winds still 
wildly sweep the northern part of our country. All nature seems dead. Only a small number of 
feathered winter visitants have come from the far north and move about in the trees and shrubbery 
of the garden. Crossbills and Redpolls have already departed to their northern home. А few 
Kinglets, Tree-Sparrows, Titmice, and Cedar Birds swing themselves on the snow-laden boughs of 
the pines and spruces. Suddenly, and entirely unexpectedly, a loud song of jubilation is carolled 
from the top of a neighbouring elm. There, in the top of yonder dark green pine is perched another 
one of these singers. They are Robins, just returned from their winter quarters, heralding in 
reverberating jubilation the approach of spring. "This, our beautiful familiar Thrush, certainly merits 
the name “harbinger of the vernal season, for it is one of the first of our birds to arrive from the 
south. In the Northern States it often makes its appearance before the middle of March, though 
the great majority do not arrive till the end of that month. Тһе inclement weather which often 
persists for several weeks, and the consequent scarcity of food, sometimes force the bird to return 
