A ROBIN'S MISTAKE
[To the Editor of the SPEcTATon.] Sia,—We have an extraordinarily tame robin in the garden wl
comes in at the dining-room window and shares our dayligh meals in the winter with almost unfailing regularity. To-da at lunch, after a hearty meal of breadcrumbs and butter, h made a circuit of the room and on a chair in a somewha dark corner my wife and I both saw him pick up something and wondered what it was, as nothing edible ought to ha been there. Some three or four minutes late he was sing merrily on the mantelpiece, when he suddenly paused, ma a distinct effort of vomiting, and disgorged what appeared t be a bit of bone. Owls disgorge pellets and seagulls a disgorge the shells of small crabs, &c., but I have alwa understood that on these occasions they bring up the enti indigestible contents of their crop. Master Bobbie apparent selected one small item which he had swallowed by mists and discarded it from what I imagine to be a fairly full crop —I am, Sir, &c.,
Waverton, Chester. PHILIP S. WATION's
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