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 lof 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. 



