BLAC'K'BlR®* 
t n , , 
, c„i,k • building their 
" hilft th£ bird • having young ones 
neft the fooneft oi any and f omc . 
1 Uu the 2'tth Oi IVia. u‘, 
co.nmonly by ^ ^ month . 
times by the i*-- whittles and 
The cock, when kept m a cage, 
fi „„s veiy delighl fully all the Spring anu , urn- 
1 g • y 1 in it four or five months m the 
5 eal ’ , . Up taught to whittle, 
pleafant natural note, may bu taug 
or play a tune. 
The Black-Bird, w 
promifeuoufly upon 
folitary bird, that, 
iingly. 
hen wild in the fields, feeds 
berries and infe&s : his a 
for the mol! part, flies 
hi he dijhngutjhwg Ivl&vks of too uoex chid lit ft. 
They are not eafilv known by their colour 
while young, but the blacked bird generally 
proves a cock : the hides, or circle, that cir- 
cumvefts the eye in the young cock-bird, is yel- 
low : his bill is black, and turns not perfectly 
yellow tilt he is near a year old : the bill of ail 
old cock-bird is of a deep yellow ; in the hen the 
tip and upper part is black ; the month, in both, 
is yellow within : the hen, and young cock- 
birds are rather brown, or of a dark rufkt, 
than black, and their bellies of an abb-colour ; 
but after the cock lias mewed his chicken fea- 
thers, he becomes coal-black. 
