Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Turdus migratorius.
Maine (Lake Umbagog).
copy 1
// George Hayward, one of the trappers, tells me that
Robins winter here nearly every season in small numbers. //
Four nests in the firs behind the mill, three of
them containing young.
copy 2
// Breeds everywhere throughout these forests, often
miles from any clearing. Song identical with that of
the Massachusetts bird.
Common. In large flecks, feeding on the berries
of the mountain ash.
Several.