. 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 ... . v - 0 5 A. NEST AND EGGS OF THE SONG-THRUSH. PLATE VI. Song-Thrushes generally build their nests in someclose thicket, or low bush, near the ground. The out-side is formed of small sticks, withered leaves, grass, andvarious kinds of moss. Plenty of these materials arehuddled together in a loose and negligent manner. The inmost coat or lining is made of a mixture of clayand rotten wood, with a few slen
. 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 ... . v - 0 5 A. NEST AND EGGS OF THE SONG-THRUSH. PLATE VI. Song-Thrushes generally build their nests in someclose thicket, or low bush, near the ground. The out-side is formed of small sticks, withered leaves, grass, andvarious kinds of moss. Plenty of these materials arehuddled together in a loose and negligent manner. The inmost coat or lining is made of a mixture of clayand rotten wood, with a few slender blades of witheredgrass to bind it together. This coat, in the nest beforeme, is near half an inch thick; upon this plaster theeggs are laid, no grass or soft covering being put uponit, as in that of the blackbird, misselbird, &c. The eggs are of a beautiful pale blue, with a castof green, and marked with a fev/ distinct purple spots. The cock is distinguished from the hen by the gen-eral hue of his colours being brighter and stronger, par-ticularly by the light-coloured line which passes fromthe bill to the eyes being whiter in the cock, and thedark-coloured line being MC Em/ TURDUS MERULA. Syst. Nat. 295. THE BLACKBIRD, OR OUZLE. PLATE VII. X he bill is an inch long, in the cock of a fine brightgold colour, in the hen dusky towards the point, yellowtowards the base. The inside of the mouth is yellow,the eyes are brown and very bright, the circle roundthem yellow\ The whole plumage of the cock, in old birds, is anintense steady black without glossiness. The hen isof a dusky black, inclining to brown; the throat andupper part of the breast excepted, which are of a dulldirty white, spotted with black. The wing is composed of eighteen feathers, of whichthe second order of quills are remarkably large andbroad. The tail consists of twelve feathers, and whendisplayed is fan-shaped, the outer feathers being shorterthan the middle ones. The legs and feet are black,
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