BLACKBERRY

es (Rubus fruticosus), common plant of family Rosacez. | name of a common bird, found all over the northern United States, Europe, in Asia, and N. Africa. It has been acclimatized in New Zealand. In Great Britain it is a resident, but large numbers of emigrants also come in the autumn. The male is entirely black, with bright yellow beak, taking a deeper and more Vivid color in the ing season. The female is a dusky brown, fading to a paler hue beneath. The nest, built in thickets or creeper-clad trees, is of and mo , and plastered with mud; the eggs, four to six in number, are blue with brown specks. The B. is a fine song-bird, its notes being clear and loud, but it has not the range or modulations of the thrush. Destructive to fruit and seeds, it also feeds largely on worms, grubs, snails, and is therefore useful in keeping down garden pests. Its old Eng. name ‘ousel,’ appears in the name of a variant, the ‘ring-ousel,’ so called from its white neck marks. town, Lancashire, England; cotton weaving; birthplace of Hargreaves, ne invented spinning-jenny, 1764. ‘op. 1921, 129,400. BARON (1813-96), Eng. judge; made a lord of appeal (1876), and noted as a high authority on common law; author of the Law of Sales.