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 CHAPTER XVII.

THE ROBINS AND CHATS.

have now done with the Thrushes and come

to a group of birds bound together by certain well-marked family features. They are small birds, usually dressed in black and white, or brown and white, always neat, but never gaudy. They are all afflicted with some form of St. Vitus' The Magpie Robin. dance in the muscles of the tail; they are either twisting it, or throwing it up over their backs, or doing