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MERULID E, 



INSESSOBES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 





Sl;^9it.iK.',- 



MEUULIDJE. 



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THE BLACKBIRD. 



Turdus merula, The Blackbird, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 411. 



Mont. Omith. Diet. 



Merula imlgaris, ,, 



Turdus merula, ,, 



Merula vulgaris^ ,, 



Turdus merula. Merle noir. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 125. 

 Flem. Brit. An. p. 65. 

 Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 167. 

 Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 101. 

 GouT.D, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 

 TEMM.Man.d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 168. 



The Blackbird is a species so generally known that 

 but little need be said of its habits or its haunts. Unlike 

 most of the species of the genus to which it belongs, it is 

 very seldom seen in flocks, and rarely more than two are to 

 be observed in company. Numbers are bred in this country 

 every season ; and those thus reared, it is believed, do not 

 migrate. 



