SONG THRUSH. 95 



feather marked on the tip with broad triangular 

 spots of umber brown. The centre of the bell\ v 

 and vent, and under tail coverts, are pure white, 

 marked with the same dark spots, which become 

 more scarce in the middle, and of less size and 

 more oval form. The flanks are tinted with buff 

 orange and pale hair brown, and have the spots 

 lengthened and in the form of dashes. The under 

 wing coverts, and base of the inner webs of the 

 quills, are rich buff orange, and are marked dis- 

 tinctions between this and the last species. There 

 is comparatively little difference between the 

 sexes ; a general dulness of the tints, and a want 

 of clearness in the orange and spotting of the 

 breast, is often all that is observable. Length? 

 about nine inches. 



THE BLACKBIRD. 



Merula vulgaris. RAY. 

 PLATE III. 



Merula vulgaris, Ray Turdus merula, Linn Le Merle, 

 et Merle Noir, Buff, and Temm Blackbird of British 

 authors. 



With the Song Thrush we concluded the list 

 of our British species possessed of plumage gene 

 rally brown above, and spotted on the undei 

 parts, that of the two remaining birds being of 

 deeper colours more uniformly disposed. The 

 Blackbird is equally well known, as widely dis- 

 tributed, and almost as great a favourite as the 



