. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . and cows dung, wellwrought and tempered together. And over this a softcovering of the dried blades of hair-grass, which isneatly wove and platted together in the bottom andsides of the cavity, as well as upon the brim of the nest. In the nest was four eggs of a dusky blue green, withnumerous small points of a darker colour. The Blackbird sits concealed while he sings. In o breeding-time, his whistle is
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . and cows dung, wellwrought and tempered together. And over this a softcovering of the dried blades of hair-grass, which isneatly wove and platted together in the bottom andsides of the cavity, as well as upon the brim of the nest. In the nest was four eggs of a dusky blue green, withnumerous small points of a darker colour. The Blackbird sits concealed while he sings. In o breeding-time, his whistle is so loud and shrill as tomake the dales re-echo. When two are singingat the same time within hearing of each other, theywill contend in song like the nightingale, each keep-ing silence alternately till the other has repeated hissong. The Ouzle, as well as other birds of the thrush kind,when taken in traps, or otherwise, are easily reclaimedby being put in large cages with tame birds of the samespecies, placing for a few days, haws, hips, worms, & the cage, still giving him fewer and fewer every dav,and in the space of a fortnight he will wean himself,and take the tame birds ^?;vard;u(;, ;ity miKMllDQE. MA USA TURDUS TUROUATUS. Sysi. Nat, 296- THE RING-OUZLE, OR HEATH-OUZLE. PLATE IX. X his bird, in shape and size, is equal to the ouzle orblackbird. In the bird before me, the bill is of a yel-low ochre colour, except the point, which is mouth is yellow within. The eyes a dark whole upper side of the bird, from bill to tail, isblack, with a cast of brown somewhat bright and head is of a fuller black than the other parts of thebody. The quill feathers of the wing are the samecolour as the back, except their exterior edges, whichare white. The first and second coverts also have whiteedges. The tail is composed of twelve black feathers,with pale coloured edges. On the breast of the cock is a lunated mark of aclear white, terminating in a po
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