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and breast, are grayish white, almost pure white 

 towards the vent ; at the . tail yellowish white. 

 The female is smaller in size, but similar in 

 plumage, and is only known (it is said) by the 

 general characteristics, not standing so upright 

 as the male, having a smaller eye, &c. 



LOCATION. This bird takes a most extensive 

 range, and is said to be found in Europe, Asia, 

 and Africa, and in them all Resident. 



BLACK CAP. 



This bird is about the same size, and closely 

 allied to the Nightingale, although placed by 

 naturalists in a different genera. It does not re- 

 quire that care and attention, nor the variety of 

 food which the Nightingale does; and by many 

 the notes of the Black Cap are thought fully 

 equal, and by some superior, to the Nightingale. 

 We have never had the pleasure of keeping this 

 bird. Until within a few years it was was very 

 rare in Scotland ; it is now more common, and 

 is more equally distributed through England. 

 Formerly, it was only found in particular dis- 



