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arc more suffused with huffish brown, and the underparts, cheeks, 

 and nape are pale huffish brown. Birds of the year scarcely differ 

 from adults in autumn plumage, except that the head of the male 

 is intermediate in colour between that of the adult male and adult 

 female. 



The male in first plumage is said to resemble the female, and to 

 attain the black head in the first autumn by a change in the colour 

 of the feathers, and not by a moult. It is also asserted that this 

 species has no spring moult ; but these alleged facts requii'e veri- 

 fication. 



A curious local race (Sylvia heineleni) is found on the island 

 of iJadeira, having the entire head, throat, and breast black. It is 

 said to occur accidentally, one or two individuals in a brood 

 only possessing this peculiarity. It is probably an instance of 

 partial melanism and has no claim to be considered even a sub- 

 species. 



The Blackcap, or Black-capped Warbler, breeds throughout Europe 

 to within two hundred miles of the Arctic Circle, and occasionally 

 in Korth Africa, extending eastwards as tar as Persia, where, how- 

 ever, it is very rare. "Westwards it extends as far as the Azores. 

 Some winter in South Europe and iS'orth Africa, others in Senegal. 



a. (S ad. St. England. 



6. c? ad. sk. Devunshire. Col. Montagu [P 



c. $ ad. sk. WiUshire. Col, Montagu [P, 



d,e. (S 2 ad.;/, g. Pull. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [C. 



St. 



h. (S ad. sk. Cambridge, April 14 



(O. Sa'virt). 



k. c? ad. sk. 

 $ ad. sk. 



F.Godman andO.Salvin, 

 Esqrs. [P.]. 



m. 2 ad. sk. 

 n. c? ad. sk. 



0. 5 ad. sk. 



p, q. c? $ ad. sk. 



r,8. (5 5 ad. sk. 

 t, u, V. cj ad. sk. 



w, X. Ad. sk. 



y. Ad. sk. 



z, «'. (S 2 ad. sk. 



b', c'. (S ,S imm. sk. 



d'. cJ ad. sk. 



e'. $ ad. sk. 



y. c? ad. sk. 



g'. Skeleton. 



h', i'. Skulls, cJ $ . 



Avington, Hunts, Mav 5. Ed. Shellev, Esq. [P.]. 

 South Sweden, Sept."l2. E. B.Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Belgium, May 18. Brussels Mus. [P.]. 



Seville, Dec. 8. Howard Saunders, Esq. 



[P.]. 

 Gibraltar. Col. Irby [P.]. 



Mount Tavgetos, Greece. C. W. L. Merlin, Esq. 



[P.]. 



Palestine. 



St. Michaels, Azores, 



Mar. (i-'. Godman). 

 St. Michaels, Azores, 



April {F. Godman) 



Canon Tristram [C.]. 

 F.Godman andO.Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 F.Godman andO.Salvin, 



Esqrs. [PJ 

 Madeira (var. heinekvni). E. "Wilson, Esq. fP.]. 



Tenerifle, April 7, 22 



(F. Godman). 

 Cape-Yerd Isles (Keu- 



/cmans). 

 Gambia River. 

 Gambia River. 

 Gambia River. 

 England. 

 Wurtemberg. 



F.Godman andO.Salvin, 



Esqrs. [P.]. 

 R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



R. B. Shai7)e, Esq. [P.l. 

 J. H.Gurney,Esq. [P.J. 



Purchased. 



Dr. A. Guntber [C.]. 



