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■ done in 26 days : they build their nefls in 
■trees, lay four beautiful light-blue eggs, feed 
• on worms and carrion : when at liberty they 
fing very prettily, but confined in a cage, 
they lofe their melody. There is no material 
diftindtion between the male and female. 
Their weight is z\ ounces, the length 9 
■ inches, and the breadth 1 foot; they are cal- 
led red birds at Hudfon’s Bay; their Indian 
name is Pee-pee-chue . 
Turdus, 22. 
Severn River, N° 54 and 55, male and female. 
From the ftriking fimilarity with our blackbird, 
the Englifh at Hudfon’s Bay have given this 
bird the fame name. However, upon a dole 
examination, I find the difference very great 
between our European blackbird, and the 
Hudfon’s Bay or American one. The plumage 
of the male, inftead of being deep black 
without any glofs, as in ours, has a fhining 
purple call:, not unlike the plumage of 
the Gracula Quifcula, Linn, or fhining 
Gracule, Faun. Am. Sept. ; or the Maize 
thief, of Kalm. The female indeed is very 
like our female blackbird, being of a dufky 
colour on the back, and a dark grey on the 
bread. The feet and bill are quite black in 
both fexes; the former have the back claw 
almoft as long again as any of the other claws. 
There are no veftiges of yellow palpebrae in 
either the male or the female; the bill in 
both is ftrong, fmooth, and Tubulated ; the 
upper 
