Maccii BOL AC K BI Rup. 
which it builds earlier than any other bird: the neft 
is formed of mofs, dead grafs, fibres, 8c. lined 
or plaiftered with clay, and that again covered with 
hay or fmall ftraw. It lays four or five eggs of a 
bluifh green color, marked with irregular dufky 
fpots. The note of the male is extremely fine, 
but too loud for any place except the woods: it 
begins to fing early in the fpring, continues its 
mufic part of the fummer, defifts in the moulting 
feafon; but refumes it for fome time in Septem- 
ber, and the firft winter months. 
The color of the male, when it has attained its 
full age, is of a fine deep black, and the bill of a 
bright yellow: the edges of the eye-lids yellow. 
When young the bill is dufky, and the plumage 
of a rufty black, fo that they are not to be diftin- 
guifhed from the females; but at the age of one 
year they attain their proper color. 
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