TUIIDUS MERULA. 
BLACKBIRD, 
Generic Character. See Turdus Viscivorus. 
TuRDUs Merula; ater, rostro palpebris pedibusque 
fulvis. 
Blackbird. Body black; bill, eyelids, and legs, red- 
dish yellow. 
Tjjrdus Merula. Lin. S^st. v. I. p. 2%. GmeL 
^st. V. 2. p. 831. Raii Syn. p. 65. Lath. 
Ind. Om. V. 1. p. 340. 
Le Merle. JBiif. Hist d'Ois. v. 3. p. 330. lb. PL 
Enl. 2. Male. 555. Female. 
Merle Noir. Temm. Man, d'Orn. ed. 2. p. 168, 
Blackbird. Br. Zool. Svo. ed. v. L p. 411. pi. 51. 
Arct. Zool. V. 2. p. 345. Lath. Syn. v. 3. 
■ p. 43. Ih. Sup. p. 14L Lewin Br. Birds, 
V.2. ^..61. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bewick's 
Br. Birds, pt. 1. p. 122. Lou: Fauna 
Orcadensis^ p. 58, Gen. Zool. v. 10, 
p. 225. 
Egg, Ovarium Brit ^ pt.l. 
^ThIS well known bird is of a shy and solitary disposi- 
tion, and frequents thickets, hedge rows, and the outskirts 
of gardens and orchards, and is of a very timid disposition. 
It is one of the earliest of our song birds, possessing a very 
powerful and melodious pipe; fn the winter its note of 
alarm is a kind of scream, something like the word chuck^ 
chucJc^ repealed several times. 
