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awhile longer. But late in December I saw perhaps a dozen of 
them wading in the shallow water just below a mill-dam near my 
residence. They remained about this place for several days. At 
the time the ground was covered with snow, and the ice was 
more than fifteen inches thick on the mill-pond above. 
Lately a workman on my farm stated that in January he had 
seen a robin ( Zurdus migratorius.) where a little spring of water 
flows out of the bank below the mill-dam. This was deemed a 
breast! It seems more singular that it should remain with us 
when its mates are all away in the sunny South! To-day we are 
having a regular Iowa “blizzard.” The snow would be twenty 
inches deep if it were not piled in great drifts, and the ice in our 
little river is at least three and a half feet thick! I visited the 
spot to-day, but did not find my robin. Several chickadees 
(Parus atricapillus) were hopping about the spring, doubtless in 
search of food or drink 
Mer in this view I cannot concur, no specimens among the many 
Sees examined, indicating that any light color phase exists ; 
