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MERULTDJE. 
very beautiful egg, such as I have never seen before; it is 
of a clear green-blue, with numerous minute spots and 
some large blotches of delicate light red brown and 
purple, with two or three spots of black at the larger end. 
My friend, Mr. Henry Doubleday, found several nests of 
the Blackbird in JEppiug Forest, the eggs of which were 
of the fine blue of the thrush, and without spot. 
The eggs of the Blackbird are frequently of an oval 
form, the smaller end being rounded and obtuse, a cha¬ 
racter which I have not noticed in the allied species. 
