a blackbird: its length, from the tip of the bill to the 
end of the tail, is about thirteen inchesj and to the end 
of the claws about feven inches and nine lines. The 
bill, from the tip to the corners of the mouth, eleven 
lines: the tail feven inches and fix lines: the foot ten 
lines and a half: the exterior fore-toe, with the claw, 
eleven lines ; the interior nine lines; the exterior 
hind-toe ten lines; the interior five lines and a half. 
The wings, when clofed, do not reach much beyond 
the beginning of the tail. The top of the head is of 
a clear white, variegated with minute fpecks of 
blue: all the reft of the head, with the throat, is 
blackifh : the blacknefs being produced on the lower 
part of the neck into a fharpened form. On each 
fide the head is a round white fpot, placed behind 
the eye. The upper part of the neck, the back, 
the fcapular feathers, and the upper wing-coverts 
are of a moft brilliant blue, except the larger upper 
wing-coverts fartheft from the body, which are 
white: the rump is of a very pale blue: the upper 
tail-coverts are of the fame blue color with the back, 
and are each marked with a rather large, fnow-white 
fpot towards the end : the lower part and fides of the 
neck, the breaft, belly, fides ot the body, thighs, 
and lower tail-coverts are of a beautiful fnow-white. 
The larger wing- feathers are of a very pale blue from 
their origins to their middles ; and from their mid¬ 
dles to their tips of the fame blue with the back: 
the fmaller wing-feathers are alfo of the fame color 
with the back. The tail is compofed of ten feathers 
of a very bright blue, each marked towards the tip 
with a largiih fnow-white fpot: the two middle 
feather 
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