3o8 BLACKBIRD. Class IL 



tie ; but are lefs, only weighing two ounces and a 

 quarter : their colors are much the fame ; only 

 the fides under the wings and the inner coverts in 

 this are of a reddifh orange-, in the throftle yel- 

 low: above each eye is a line of yellowifh white, 

 beginning at the bill and pafling towards the 

 hind part of the head. The vent feathers are white. 

 Befides thefe three forts of throftles, the author 

 of the epitome of the art of hujhandry^^ mentions a 

 fourth kind under the name of the heath throftky 

 which he commends as far fuperior to the others in 

 its fong : he fays it is the left of any, and may be 

 known by its dark breaft; that it builds its neft by 

 fome heath-fide, is very fcarce, and will fing nine 

 months in the year. 



109. Black- Le Merle noir. Behn av. ^zo, Kohl-Traft. Faun. Suec.fp, 



BIRD. Morula. G ef ner anj. 60Z. 



Aldr. a--u. II. 276. 

 Merle. Zinan. 39. Qlina, 29. 

 WiL orn. 190. 

 Rail fyn. av. 65. 

 La Merle. BriJJhn a'v. II. 227. 

 Hijfi. d'Oys. III. 330. 



PL Enl 2. 

 Turd us merula. Lin. fyfl. 



295. 



220. 

 Van. & Nor'vegis Solfort. Br, 



234- 

 Amfel, Amarl. Kram. 360. 



Schwartze Amfel, Frifch, I. 



29. 

 Br. Zool. 92. 

 K-cfs, Scopolij No. 197. 



T 



HIS bird is of a very retired andfolitary na- 

 ture : frequents hedges and thickets, in 



* By J. '^,gent, third edit, 1685 c 



which 



