. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ^# Fig. 125. Young Feaiale Blackbird. 81 TURDUS MERULA. THE BLACK THRUSH, ORBLACKBIRD. OUZEL. GARDEN OUZEL. MERLE. LON Frc. 126. Turdus Merula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 295. Turdus Merula. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 340. Blackbird. Mont. Orn. Diet. Merle noir. Turdus Merula. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 163. Blackbird. Merula vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 167- Tu
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ^# Fig. 125. Young Feaiale Blackbird. 81 TURDUS MERULA. THE BLACK THRUSH, ORBLACKBIRD. OUZEL. GARDEN OUZEL. MERLE. LON Frc. 126. Turdus Merula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 295. Turdus Merula. Lath. Ind. Orn. L 340. Blackbird. Mont. Orn. Diet. Merle noir. Turdus Merula. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 163. Blackbird. Merula vulgaris. Selb. Illustr. I. 167- Turdus Merula. Blackbird. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 101. TIT. 90. Male with the plumage blacJc^ the hill yellow, the feet with the plumage deep hrown above, lighter beneath, thethroat and fore-neck pale brown, streaked with darker^ the billand feet dusky. Young dusky-brown above, with didl yellowishstreaks ; pale yellowish-brown, spotted with dusky, beneath. Male.—The Blackbird is perhaps the most elegant of ourBritish Thrushes, although the Mountain Ouzel and the Field-fare are nearly of the same form. The body is ovate, nearlyas broad as deep ; the neck of ordinary length ; the head ob- VOL. II. G 82 TURDUS MERULA. long; the legs rather strong ; the wings of moderate length ;and the tail long. The bill is of moderate size, compressedtowards the end; the upper
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