‘THE BLACKBIRD 
This Ouzel is*not gregarious, and if seen in numbers 
together has congregated only where food chances to be 
abundant. 
The adult male Blackbird is uniformly glossy black ; 
the bill and orbits are orange-yellow. ‘The female has 
the upper parts dark brown tinged with olive, darkest on 
the wings and tail, the under parts brown, more or less 
suffused with rufous on the throat and breast, which are 
marked with dusky streaks. Bill and orbits nearly black ; 
legs and feet of both sexes nearly black; irides dark 
brown. Length about ro} inches. Young in nestling 
plumage have pale shaft streaks and dark tips to the 
feathers of the upper parts, and the under parts have 
dark bars. 
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