T He ROU Son 43 
, 45. 
Turdus merula, Zin. Syf. i. p. 295. N® 22.—Scof. ann. i. N° ip7.—= BLACKBIRD. 
Muller, N° 29. N° 241, 
Le Merle, Brif. orz. ii, p. 227. N° 10.—Buf. oi/. iii. p. 330. pl. 20.—Pé. 
al. ii. 555. 
Schwartze amfel. Fri/ch. t. 29.—Kram. el. p. 360. 3. 
Merla, Olin. uccel. p. 29. 
The Blackbird, Raii Syn. p. 65. A. 1.—Will. orn. p. 190.—Albin. i. pl. 37. 
—Br. Zool. i, N° 109. pl. 47.—Ar&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 
HIS is a well-known bird: its length above ten inches. Description. 
The bill, infide of the mouth, and eye-lids, in the male, of 
a fine orange yellow: the plumage univerfally black: the legs 
black brown. 
The female is moftly brown, inclining to rufous beneath, par- FEMALE. 
ticularly on the breaft and belly. The bill is dufky black: and 
the legs brown. 
Young males, for the firft year, much refemble the females ; 
not becoming of a full black, nor gaining the yellow bill, till the 
fecond year. 
This fpecies feems pretty general throughout the temperate Prace awn 
parts of Europe; moft authors mentioning it. It is not common ee 
in Ruffia, except inthe weftern provinces ; and in refpec&t to fome 
parts of that empire is migratory, as it is feldom obferved at 
Woronefch, on the river Doz, till paft the-middle of April*; and 
as to Sibiria, it has never yet been found there}. It is faid 
alfo to be frequent at Aleppo; but in any other part of Afat, or 
in Africa, 1 do not recollect to have heard of it. 
* Decouv. Rufii. p. 102. + Mr. Pennant. 
{ I have indeed feen one very like it in fome Cdine/e drawings, but the legs 
were red, as well as the bill, and the under parts of the plumage dufky: it 
was about the fame fize and fhape. Probably a variety of N° 27. 
G2 This 
