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I NOTICE a letter from Mr. Murphy in your issue of December 24, 1885, about a blackbird with a white feather in its tail. Allow me to say that last month I saw a cock blackbird with a pure white tail; the rest of its plumage was natural. I saw it very distinctly, as it was flying away from me at the time, not more than ten yards off when I first noticed it, with its tail extended; I saw it again last week, within a few feet of the same place, this time running under a gate. My wife says she saw a similar bird, at the same spot, about a year ago.
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BUSK, T. Blackbird with White Feather. Nature 33, 222 (1886). https://doi.org/10.1038/033222d0
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