A SA(iAci()US %ju|i.— Mrs. Burwell, of West- 

 field, C'oiiii., found a. helpless robin a year afjo 

 last summer, which had fallen fvom'its nest 

 while learning- to fly. .She placed it in a cage 

 and raised it. This summer she released it, 

 thinking the bird would be happier at liberty. 



iThe Xew Haven lieyisfer says that last week 

 the robin returned to Mrs. Burwell' s yard and 

 flew upon her finger. When spoken to "he 

 was willinglv taken into the house, and there 

 he gave unmistakable expressions of delight 

 at being in his old home. After the excite- 

 , ment had ])assed away the empty cage was 

 brought to the room and straight into it flew 

 the robin. He hopped up to his perch, and 

 there settled down in evident contentment. I 

 He hadn't forgotten where to look for his food 

 I nor for what his batli was intended. It is 

 believed that the bird didn't know what else 

 ; to do when the cold weather came." — Public 

 'Ledger, Philadelphia, Pa. ' 



Q&O.XY, Deo, 1890. », /e'7' 



Return of Robins to the same Nesting-places.— Mr. Charles S. Mason, 

 of Farmington, Conn., tells me that for the last three years a Robin 

 {Merula migratoria), with the back and wings mottled with white, has 

 bred on or near Miss Ptfrter's lawn in that village, and that a young bird 

 was seen last fall partially white. At the time of writing (May 20, 1885) 

 the birds had not appeared this season. 



Mr. Charles A. Hewins, of West Roxbury, Mass., writes that "some 

 years ago a Robin built her nest five consecutive years in a woodbine that 

 was trained up and over a piazza. We knew her by a white mark on one 

 side of her head."— Jno. H. Sage, Portland, Cotni. 



Auk, a, July, 1886. P. SO'l/. 



y--* I have a Martin box on a pole 

 some fifteen feet high. The Martins came \ 

 in the Spring and stayed a few days and 

 then for some reason best known to them- 

 selves left. A pair of Eo^,ins at once took : 

 possession and built a nest in one of the i 

 compartments, and when finished the old 

 lady sat (?) set (!) sot (?) with her head out 

 j of the front window, showing that she was , 

 " at home." 



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Auk, XV, July, 1898, 

 f tEe Robin. — In J-fr. Howe's mterestmg 



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Nesting Habits of tT? R'oblH.- In "Ivrr: Howe's mteresting pape: 

 the 'Breeding Habits of the Robin' I notice (Auk, XV, April, 1898, 

 p. 167) that he has not observed an instance of a second brood being 

 raised in the same nest. So it may be of interest to note that here a 

 slightly different record can be made. 



I ha've under observation at this writing three nests in which second 

 clutches of eggs have been laid and are now being incubated. One is in 

 a window corner of my office, — and in this case the lining was not even 

 changed. The first egg was laid just one week after the young of the 

 first brood left the nest. 



Another nest is in the c 

 the lining was torn c 

 in a young linden tree, f 

 first brood left. 



Last year a Robin built her nest and raised a brood in the trar 

 over the door of the Glen Island Museum. She returned about a week 

 after the flight of the first brood, and laid three eggs, but deserted them, 

 when about half incubated. I think I recognize her as the same one that 

 has built in my office window this year. — S. M. McCormick, Glen Island 

 Museum, Westchester Co., Nerv York. 



_ e of a stable building, and in this instance 



md replaced by fresh material. The third nest is 

 nd I did not notice the house cleaning after the 



Lo^iS.^-^lM^e^A^ic'' for-Juiy:,898 (p. 274) I read 



- ,„ 1898,p.f>J^; 

 Nesting of the 



Mr. S. M. McCormick's very interesting article on the ' Nesting Habits of 

 the Robin,' and having found a rather unusual place for a nest I would 

 like to report it. In Woodbourne, N. Y., Dr. Munson has a large dwelling 

 with a piazza in front over which a honeysuckle has been trained, and in 

 this vine, about eight feet up, on a branch three quarters of an inch in 

 circumference, with six little runners, the nest was built, it being made 

 doubly secure by the winding of grasses around the branches, covering 

 the bottom entirely. But what struck me as remarkable was the almost 

 perpendicular hanging of the nest, looking very much as a China saucer 

 does on a bracket. The bottom partially rested against some wire that 

 the vine ran on, but it was not fastened to it. Two broods were raised in 

 it without any attempt at house-cleaning. Possibly they found t'here was 

 no time for such a luxury. I was very sorry not to see the birds in it, 

 but I did not get to the place in time. — A. A. Crolius, Ne-vj Tork City. 



