. British zoology . ds thehind part of the head. The vent feathers are thefe three forts of throftles, the authorof the epitome of the art of hujhandry^^ mentions afourth kind under the name of the heath throftkywhich he commends as far fuperior to the others inits fong: he fays it is the left of any, and may beknown by its dark breaft; that it builds its neft byfome heath-fide, is very fcarce, and will fing ninemonths in the year. 109. Black- Le Merle noir. Behn av. ^zo, Kohl-Traft. Faun. , BIRD. Morula. Gefner anj. 60Z. Aldr. a--u. II. Zinan. 39. Qlina,
. British zoology . ds thehind part of the head. The vent feathers are thefe three forts of throftles, the authorof the epitome of the art of hujhandry^^ mentions afourth kind under the name of the heath throftkywhich he commends as far fuperior to the others inits fong: he fays it is the left of any, and may beknown by its dark breaft; that it builds its neft byfome heath-fide, is very fcarce, and will fing ninemonths in the year. 109. Black- Le Merle noir. Behn av. ^zo, Kohl-Traft. Faun. , BIRD. Morula. Gefner anj. 60Z. Aldr. a--u. II. Zinan. 39. Qlina, orn. fyn. av. Merle. BriJJhn av. II. dOys. III. 330. PL Enl us merula. Lin. fyfl. 295. & Norvegis Solfort. Br, 234-Amfel, Amarl. Kram. 360. Schwartze Amfel, Frifch, I. Zool. , Scopolij No. 197. T HIS bird is of a very retired andfolitary na-ture : frequents hedges and thickets, in * By J. ^,gent, third edit, 1685 c which vr /f)j F. # . hr -PPiJ ^ Class II. BLACKBIRD. 309 which it builds earlier than any other bird : the nefl:is formed of mofs, dead grafs, fibres, &c. linedor plaiftered with clay, and that again covered withhay or fmall draw. It lays four or five eggs of abluifh green color, marked with irregular diifkyfpots. The note of the male is extremely fine,but too loud for any place except the woods: itbegins to fing early in the fpring, continues itsmufic part of the fummer, defifts in the moultingfeafon; but refumes it for fome time in Septem-ber^ and the firft winter months. The color of the male, when it has attained its age, is of a fine deep black, and the bill of abrioht yellow: the edges of the eye-lids young the bill is duiky, and the plumageof a rufty black, fo that they are not to be diftin-guiflied from the females; but at the age of oneyear they attain their proper color. Le RING-OUZEL. Class II, iio. Ring-Ouzel. Le Merle ou Collier. Belon a-v.
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