OUR HOME BIRDS. 
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yet dapples the fields and flocks of them are dispersed 
about, some few will mount a post or stake of the 
Fig. 4. — Robin, 
fence and make short and frequent attempts at their 
song. Early in April they are only to be seen in 
pairs, and deliver their notes with great earnestness 
from the top of some tree detached from the woods. 
They are, as it were, the prelude to the grand gen- 
eral concert that is about to burst upon us from 
woods, fields, and thickets. By the usual association 
of ideas, therefore, we listen with more pleasure to 
this cheerful bird than to many others possessed of 
