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up one morning on deck, weak and wounded; it had been 
driven against a mast of the ship in the night, which was 
rough and squally. The bird was attended to, and recovered. 
and continued with the vessel until she reached Bengal, where 
it was taken to land and liberated It used to fly about 
the rigging, and come down on the deck to be fed. Mr. 
Burroughes added, that it was highly curious to see the Robin 
preparing to shelter itself about the different parts of the 
rigging, etc., upon the approach of any coarse weather.’ 
At a gentleman’s house in Darley Dale, in Derbyshire, as 
mentioned in the ‘Derby Reporter,’ a Robin domiciled for three 
successive winters, having had ingress and egress during the 
day, with the privilege of free access to a well-stocked larder, 
partaking at will of what it contained. Its roosting-place 
was usually on a Christmas bough in the kitchen, which 
was retained for its dormitory. It used to enter for the 
night at dusk of evening, having during the day occasionally 
sung for hours together to the domestics, as if to reward 
them for cherishing it thus bountifully. Hach year it built 
its nest in the trunk of a tree near the house, and fed its 
young from the larder. Being so familiar with the household, 
it would fly undauntedly from room to room, and occasionally 
alight on the family breakfast-table, sometimes perching and 
chirping, as if to ingratiate itself with its hospitable enter- 
tainers. 
Mr. Macgillivray says, ‘lu wie summer of 1835, a male 
Robin in my garden became so tame that he picked from 
the hand of the gardener; and in the middle of the day, 
when the latter took his dinner, he constantly attended for 
the purpose of obtaining a portion of it. Upon the knee of 
my wife I have frequently seen him alight, and take: bread 
out of her hand as familiarly as if he had been tamed from 
the nest. To me he likewise became very much attached: 
he continued so during the autumn. One cold morning in 
the beginning of winter, as I was standing at the door of 
my house, having heard my voice, he immediately flew to me, 
and, seeming to claim my protection, followed me into the 
parlour, where he was quite at ease. I caught him and put 
him into my garret, in which, during the winter, he sang 
most delightfully. Being sorry to see him alone, I got for 
him a helpmate to cheer him in his confinement. About the 
middle of April I set them at liberty, and, to my surprise, 
a few days after I discovered a very neat nest which they 
