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    1. [OXF] James MESSER and blackbirds in Chilton. ( 1832 )
    2. >From Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, March 10, 1832; Issue 4115. On the 19th ult. Mr. James MESSER , of Chilton, near Thame, caught a most beautiful copper coloured blackbird, with the assistance of two other persons, who chased it from hedge to hedge, a distance of three miles, and at length struck it with a stone; the bird is remarkably quiet. There is another blackbird, nearly all white, in the same field, supposed to be hatched in the same nest.

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