[90] D. Barrington, ‘Phil. Transact.’ 1773, p. 262. Bechstein, ‘Stubenvögel,’ 1840, s. 4.
[91] This is likewise the case with the water-ouzel, see Mr. Hepburn in the ‘Zoologist,’ 1845-1846, p. 1068.
[92] L. Lloyd, ‘Game Birds of Sweden,’ 1867, p. 25.
[93] Barrington, ibid. p. 264. Bechstein, ibid. s. 5.
[94] Dureau de la Malle gives a curious instance (‘Annales des Sc. Nat.’ 3rd series, Zoolog. tom. x. p. 118) of some wild blackbirds in his garden in Paris which naturally learnt from a caged bird a republican air.
[95] Bishop, in ‘Todd’s Cyclop. of Anat. and Phys.’ vol. iv. p. 1496.
[96] As stated by Barrington in ‘Philosoph. Transact.’ 1773, p. 262.
[97] Gould, ‘Handbook to the Birds of Australia,’ vol. i. 1865, p. 308-310. See also Mr. T. W. Wood in the ‘Student,’ April, 1870, p. 125.
[98] See remarks to this effect in Gould’s ‘Introduction to the Trochilidæ,’ 1861, p. 22.
[99] ‘The Sportsman and Naturalist in Canada,’ by Major W. Ross King, 1866, p. 144-146. Mr. T. W. Wood gives in the ‘Student’ (April, 1870, p. 116) an excellent account of the attitude and habits of this bird during its courtship. He states that the ear-tufts or neck-plumes are erected, so that they meet over the crown of the head.