BLACKBIRD. 



MERULIDJE. 



DENTIROSTRES. 







THE BLACKBIRD. 



Turdus merula. 



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



MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



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



FLEM. Brit. An. p. 65. 



Merula vulgaris, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 167. 



Turdus merula, JEXYNS, Brit Vert. p. 101. 



Merula vulgaris, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Turdus Merula, Merle noir, TEMH. 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 coun- 



