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2 BIRD LIFE IN WASHINGTON 
easy to find his home! he scarcely hides 
it at all. 
Our most familiar bird egg is Robin's. 
The children have seen the four clear blue 
green eggs so often that their mental pic¬ 
ture of a bird’s nest contains four pretty 
blue eggs. 
In spite of Robin’s great appetite for 
Photo by the Author 
NEST AND EGGS OF WESTERN ROBIN 
the juiciest, ripest cherries, he gets more 
than his share of love; lie is so much in 
evidence that we all know him. 
Mornings and evenings, from March 
until July, he sings “Cheer up, Cheer-eer, 
cheer up, cheer up, cheer-eer.” If we ap¬ 
proach too near to his home, lie scolds 
almost as hard as ^teller's Jay. He sings 
less, it is supposed, than his Eastern cou¬ 
sin—the American Robin. 
