BLACKBIRD. , 345 



, Blackbirb, Br. Zool. i. N" 109. 



Turdus merula. Trail. Kohltraft. Faun. Suee. N" 2Z0.— Latham, ii. N» 46.— Lev. 

 Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



^H. "With a yellow bill : plumage and legs intenfely black. 

 Female with bill and plumage of a dufky hue. Length nine 

 inches and a half: Weight about four ounces. 



Inhabits Europe as high even as Drontheim, Is uncommon in Place. 



Ruffia, except beyond the UralUan chain, and in the weftern pro- 

 vinces. But about JVorone/chy this bird, and the Stare, do not 

 make their appearance till about the 17th or i8th of Jpril *, fcarch- 

 ing for food in other places during the fevere feafon. 



* E/ftrails, u 107. 



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