WARBLER, BLACK CAP. — 
SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA, Penn. 
The Blackeap is widely dispersed through the 
northern and eastern parts of Europe, extending 
as far north as Lapland, and southward to the 
Pyrenees. It is generally distributed in England, 
and occurs in the south of Scotland. It arrives in 
April, and departs in September; but being shy 
and of hiding habits, is not easily discovered. 
Its song is delightful, and in the opinion of some 
little inferior to that of the Nightingale. The 
nest, which is loosely constructed, and lined with 
fibrous roots and hair, is placed in the fork of a 
shrub, or on the ground. The eggs, four or five 
in number, are of a greyish white, faintly mottled 
and freckled with purplish grey, and some streaks 
of blackish brown. Its food consists of insects 
and the smaller sorts of fruit. 
WARBLER, BLUE-THROATED. 
SyLv1a suecica, Temm. 
This species is said to be by no means uncom- 
mon in various parts of the Continent, extending 
from Spain and Italy to Siberia, Russia, Finland, 
