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TURDUS MERULA. THE BLACK THRUSH, OR 

 BLACKBIRD. 



OUZEL. GARDEN OUZEL. MERLE. LON DUBH. 



Frc. 126. 



Turdus Merula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 295. 



Turdus Merula. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 340. 



Blackbird. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Merle noir. Turdus Merula. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 163. 



Blackbird. Merula vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 167- 



Turdus Merula. Blackbird. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 101. 



TIT. 90. 



Male with the plumage blacJc^ the hill yellow, the feet dusky. 

 Female with the plumage deep hrown above, lighter beneath, the 

 throat and fore-neck pale brown, streaked with darker^ the bill 

 and feet dusky. Young dusky-brown above, with didl yellowish 

 streaks ; pale yellowish-brown, spotted with dusky, beneath. 



Male. — The Blackbird is perhaps the most elegant of our 

 British Thrushes, although the Mountain Ouzel and the Field- 

 fare are nearly of the same form. The body is ovate, nearly 

 as broad as deep ; the neck of ordinary length ; the head ob- 



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