A Curious Blackbird.
At a meeting of the London Zoological Society, a very curiouslycoloured variety of the blackbird wnn exhibited. Its bill was of a bright reddish orange colour, and the whole of its feathers, with the exception of a few white spots on its breast, was cinnamon or light chestnut brown. In some respects it resembled a male bird, but in others a female, and it could not be positively stated as to what sex it belonged. It was canght when quite young near Dorking, in Surrey, being entangled in the nets which had been put over the cherry trees on an estate there, to protect the fruit from the depredations of these birds.
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Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1897, Page 2
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115A Curious Blackbird. Manawatu Herald, 29 May 1897, Page 2
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