Show 4 t I First Rob Robin in I 4 t 4 10 By DR IRA FRANK K THONE Science Service Staff Writer By now now- everybody should have seen him even in parts of the country where winter has been severe and lingered long lone For the robin is a ahardy ahardy ahardy hardy fellow and flies north before belore the ice is off aU the thc ponds You will often hear his bis stubbornly optimistic up Cheer cheer up up cheer shouted through the flakes lakes of a whirlIng whirling whirl- whirl Ing late snowstorm Hes He's a good forager forager forager for for- ager and makes a first-class first advance guard for the army of songsters that are to follow As a matter of or fact the robin is such a good hand band at looking out for or himself even in nasty weather that it is not an uncommon thing for him to lo stay around all winter lurking in sheltered spots in the woods He is quieter then and most people dont don't notice him as they do the brighter and more vocal cardinal He seldom appears near the haunts of men if it he does stay as ns a n winter lo lodger ger though once in a while one will be seen perhaps in the company of at a lot of rowdy slum sparrows and furnish furnish fur fur- nish material for a good local newspaper newspaper news news- paper story The old nursery rhyme which is probably the first piece of or poetry taught to most children of course assumed that the robin will vili stay through the winter as a normal thing hiding in a barn But that jingle was made in England and is about an art English bird which is not at all the same as our robin Our robin is really a red-breasted red thrush laner larger lan larg er but not so feathered bright-feathered as his English namesake It is as normal for him to migrate south as it is for Cor I the English robin to face the milder English winter Inter and and see it through I |