
POSURE RS oy 
this. ba einite would probably be the cafe, for 
they begin to lay. very. early in the fpring, and 
lay more than once. “Their neft is, a little like 
the Thruth’s., but lined within; the outfide ts 
compofed of mofs, and mud, and lined with bents 
of grafs, and fibres of roots; and they are fo in- 
_ duftrious, that it is finifhed in eight days. They 
generally build low, in bufhes, or in trees. that. 
are not very high, and there have been inflances 
of their making their nefts in. the hollow of a 
tree. Mr. De Salerne fays, that a Blackbird hav- 
ing built its neft in a hedge, and very near the 
bottom, finding that two hatches of young had 
been deftroyed by cats, the third time placed it inan 
apple tree, eicht feet ahove the ground: The fe- 
male. lays five or fix bluifh evos.; the male does 
Not ailitiher in fitting, but provides-her: with food. 
A gentleman fays, that he.had feen.a. Blackbird 
that was hatched early in the year, undertake the. 
_~ Care.of fome little ones. that were lately hatched, 
Although Blackbirds lay more than once in a 
- feafon, their. firft laying frequently mifcarries, from 
4 the inclemency of the weather, in the early part 
ae _ of the year. 
Bo, Uhe young birds are ie to moult more 
: _ than once the firf year, each time the feathers of | 
the cock bird which at firft are of a dufky reddith 
C Ae brown, 
