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upper mandible being carinated, but very 

 little arched, and without any tooth or in- 

 denture whatever, on the lower fide. The 

 noftrils are as in other thrufhes. This bird 

 has no bridles at the bafe of its bill, its feet 

 have fuch fegments as Scopoli in the Annus 

 I. Hiftorico-Naturalis attributes to the flares. 

 Jnftead of being folitary and living retired 

 like the European blackbirds, thefe American 

 ones come in flocks to Severn River in June, 

 live among the willows, build in all kinds of 

 trees, and return to the fouthward in autumn. 

 They feed on worms and maggots -, their 

 weight is 2^ ounces, and they are nine inches 

 long, and one foot broad. One that was 

 kept twelve months in a cage pined away, 

 and died. Notwithstanding thefe circum- 

 fiances, I cannot help remaining undetermined 

 with regard to this bird, which at firft fight 

 is like the blackbird, has the bill of a thrufh, 

 and the feet and gregarious nature of a flare* 

 It is to be hoped, that future accounts from 

 Hudfon's Bay may inform us further, of 

 the nature of this bird, its time of incuba- 

 tion, the number of eggs, it lays, and the 

 colour of thofe eggs, together with the note 

 of the bird, the difference and characleriftick 

 marks of both the male and female, and 

 other circumflances, which may ferve to de- 

 termine to what genus and fpecies we are to 

 refer this bird. 



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