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The Robin 
C AN you not almost hear the song that is com¬ 
ing from the throat of this robin? He is an 
old friend, for no bird except the chicken is 
so well known. He looks as if he knew it, and 
were giving us his morning greeting. He often 
stays in the North all the year around, as this one 
must have done, for he is standing in the snow. 
Yet sometimes he goes South for the winter. He 
is about ten inches in length. His black head and 
dull brownish back and wings make his bright 
rusty red breast seem all the prettier. The coloring 
of the female is much duller. Their eggs are an 
odd greenish blue, called “robin’s-egg blue.” 
The Plymouth Rock Fowl 
C LUCK! Cluck!” these two hens 
must be saying, for the roosters 
seem to have disturbed them from 
their nests in the straw. These hens lay 
a good many nice, large brown eggs. These 
are named “Plymouth Rock” because they 
are a good New England breed. This kind 
is called “barred,” because their grayish 
white feathers are crossed, or barred, with 
regular narrow black lines. The upright crown on their heads is called a 
“comb,” and the rolls of skin hanging from their chins are called “wattles.” 
The Durham Cow 
W HAT a broad square body this cow has! Her legs are not very 
long, but she looks strong. She is mixed reddish brown, or dark 
red, with white, in color. The horns are short, and curved in¬ 
ward. That is the kind of horn that is 
called “crumpled,” so this is a cow with a 
crumpled horn. This cow is called a Dur¬ 
ham cow because the people of Durham, 
England, bred it till it became an excellent 
sort. Durham cows give good milk, and 
are good for fattening for the market. 
They are hardy animals, and good-natured. 
Does she not look so? 
