BIRDS OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. 



pointing upwards ; legs and feet yellow ; bill dusk}' 

 yellow. Length, Hi inches; tail, 4; open wings, 19. 

 Female a little less, and lighter in colour. Resident. 



Blackbird. — General colour of male jet black ; bill and 

 circle round eyes orange. Female brownish black, spotted 

 more or less indistinctly on breast ; her bill isgrej-ish horn- 

 colour. Length, 9 J inches ; wings, from tip to tip, 15 ; 

 tail, 4. Resident. 



Ring-Ouzel. — A summer visitor from the soutli. 

 General colour black, each feather bearing an edging of 



a ligh t e r 

 ^^-<-~ shade; a 

 broad shield - 

 like " ring " 

 marks the 

 meeting of 

 the neck and 

 breast; bill 

 pale 3^ellow ; 

 legs and feet 

 lead grey. 

 Length, 11 

 inches; 

 wings, 19 : 

 Female more of a brown shade, and narrower 



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tail, 4 

 ring. 



Nightingale. — A summer visitor from the south. 

 Upper surface brown, deepening to red on the rump and 

 tail ; under surface greyish w^hitc ; ej^e full and black. 

 When hopping about, flaps wings and raises and depresses 

 tail. Female much resembles male. Length, G inches ; 

 wings open, from tip to tip, 10^ ; tail, 3. The young are 

 mottled with j^ellow on the back, and with reddish brown 

 on the lower surface. 



