October Ninth
In size, shape, and actions, the English robin is similar to our bluebird, to which it is related. The English blackbird is a thrush, and our robin is the largest of American thrushes. In the Bermuda Islands the catbird is called "blackbird."
Notes
October Tenth
"The flight of the flying fish is usually from four to six feet above the water, and it is sustained for fifty to one hundred feet. The general enlarged pectoral fins act as wings, and furnish the motive power.... On all up grades it gives a stiff wing-stroke about every three feet, rises to overtop each advancing wave, and drops as the wave rolls on, like a stormy petrel." (Hornaday.)
October Eleventh
Mushrooms and apples are often seen resting in the branches of trees. Should you examine one, very likely you would find the marks of a rodent's teeth in its sides. This is one of the ways a red squirrel has of storing food. When he placed the mushrooms there, did he know that they would dry and be preserved? If so, why did not instinct tell him that the apples would decay before spring?