Glendale, Mass.
1912.
June 16
[June 16, 1912]

Robins scarce
Robin sings on ground.

  There are rather more Robins here than in most places
that I visited this year but not so many as usual. The
greatest number seen at any one time time on the lawn has
been four & I doubt if more than two pairs are nesting
about the Frenches' place. One remarkably handsome old
male has been singing almost unceasingly for the past four
days. I have been not a little surprised to find that he
often sings while on the ground. This morning I watched
him at it for ten or fifteen minutes as he was on the close-
shaven lawn close to the house. He would give from one to three
bars of the normal song and then make a short 
run before continuing his long. Sometimes he found and 
extracted an earth worm during one of these brief intervals
of silence. Except that it thus interrupted the song does
not differ in any respect from that which he gives when
in the trees. He is an exceptionally fine singer with strong pure voice.