Possible Clues:

• 'Ungainly fowl' of verse
• Titular bird
• Bird close to exhaustion after party
• It's like 12 across to sound mad
• Bird in an Edgar Allan Poe poem
• Sailors crossing tree-lined road to get a bird
• Black, far from bold, shot of commander at the front
• In a poem, it 'perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door'
• Soundin' like a mad balckbird
• See red and black