BLACKBIRD. 7A | 
INSESSORES. MERULID. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
THE BLACKBIRD. 
Turdus merula. 
Turdus merula, The Blackbird, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 411. 
3 bs aS Mont. Ornith. Dict. 
0 x oH Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 125. 
os a i Fem. Brit. An. p. 65. 
Merula vulgaris, PS SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 167. 
Turdus merula, a Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 101. 
Merula vulgaris, %) Govutp, Birds of Europe, pt. viii. 
Turdus Merula, Merle noir, Trem. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 168. 
Tue Buackeirp 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 country 
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