OF BIRDS. 
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The ROSE-COLOURED OUZEL. 
The plumage is of a faint rofc colour, the head, wing*, 
and tail, black; and the back part of the head crcfkd. 
This is a beautiful, and indeed rather a fcarce 
bird in Europe ; two or three have been found in 
England, and a few near Bologn in 1 'ranee, 
and feveral in Burgundy: the black, leathers on 
the head, wings, and tail, aregloffed with a beau¬ 
tiful caft of green, and of purple; the bread, 
the ftomach, the back, and the fmaller coverts, 
are tinged with a delicate rofe colour, of two 
different (hades. 
Little is known of the habits of this very 
elegant bird; great flocks appear every year 
near the river Don, and the irtis, and on the 
borders of the Cafpian Sea, they devour great 
numbers of locufts, and breed amongft the 
rocks. In the fummer they are found near Aleppo,, 
where they arc called the Loculi bird. 
The BLACKBIRD. 
Its body is black, the eak and eye brows yellow. 
It inhabits Euiopc, frequents woods, and diireininatei 
juniper. 
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