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Show It " ' 'THe AMERICAN ROBIN. ! mm:) -.o I I ;v From Vick's Monthly Magazine. t ..Mk. Edxtoh : I think you will allow mc to thank you forborne interesting1 articles given in J ( , your Magazjnk on American birds. Much I . ilcased Was I with your description of the beauti- ' ful Mountain Quails of California-1 as bcautifui , and, 1 Relieve, as proud as Peacocks.' Since read- I j ing your description, hich I did a ear or so agO, I in my quiet home on this side of the stormy At lantic, I have seen them in t'leir mountain holne, and, though small, they are the only bird I have ever seen that can at all rival the English Pheas-v. Pheas-v. ant in beauty. , ; '; .; ? t - r-1 On my first- visit to your country, I exclaimed, -n sAcn a pfetty,bird among, the Cedars, "What , 'M iijeauliful Thrush l". "That is i;ot&" ThrUsh,' Hv a J'.V AMERICAN KOniK. H 1 f saidiseveraj friends ;y'thiit is wRobin.V ICsWni I 4;motiotis,:c.; vefe like the Thrush' that I had Bt . J Abethvftimillar with from boyhood." This led me. Kl , r J ! toJIlook.up.the question, because the red breast Wml j . was(all I could see. that a all resembled thd Eng- Mj lish Robin. I soon, found that I was correct, and ' thatwhat is knoWn.as the American Robin is Ri really a Thrush. 1 am not surprised, however, ? ' ' tliat at the first settlement of the country, .on see- B ' i ' ., .ing.its red .breast, so like the breast of the, little Hi , ' Robin at home, it should be so named. In a Hi 1 ' strange land, we love anything that reminds us of' H; . !;.:'homc. I saw a little cottage, in passing through 1 , x ..v . ' : Michigan, on the way to the pacific, that looked so much like one near my own home, that I felt like H1 ' ' ! " having the cars stopped and cla'ming the owners H 1 . of that home as my friends. I really don't know 'Jj but I could have gone so far as, to name them. Hjj J ' ' Vhe English Rpb.in is a. small bird, uoi larger Hi vii ithanasparrownhditisa pet; scarcely a boy H J I would be heartless eliough to injure a. Robin, and H1 v' r- many crumbs do they get in the winter season, HLiif v-m even from the poor who have few crumbs 6 spare. t , The Uttle story of the Robins that coyered the n 4 ffi n tlost.childrcn in the woods with ( leaves, , has , done " more 'for them, than all the game laws of the world II 1 than your red-breasted species, and has a pretty spotted breast Instead of a red one, though I notice no-tice many of the young birds 'in America some,, of them, at least have spotted breasts. I have drawings of the Robin, ard also of the English Thrush, and as ybu doubtless have many of the American bird, I think that perhaps their publication publica-tion would be pleasant to your readers, and show beyond question that thejRobijri of America resembles re-sembles the English Thrush and not the Robin I have thought of importing a few of the American Amer-ican birds, but might make a bad mistake, as the Americans did in obtaining English S.parrows, for we have now plenty of (fruit eating birds, and though they no doubt destroy a. great many insects and are perhaps a necessary evil, it is auything but 'pleasant to-lose more than half our Cheiries1, an'd-tobc compelled to1 cover Strawberry beds . . ENGLfSll TllRUSll. JUls .withaiettipg even to secure a quart'or1 two. heard a good deal of complaint of .destructive insects in America, but you don't know anything 1 aiut 'our di&cuUics T&Dmk'ojox oft' the Tita-mcs. V'Vt Hi " tnl |