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W.ARBLEE, BLACKCAP. 



SYLYIA ATRICAPILLA, Penn. 



The Blackcap is widely scattered 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, it 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. 



WAEBLER, BLUE-THROATED. 

 SYLYIA SUECICA, Temm. 



It is said that this bird is by no means uncom- 

 mon in various parts of the Continent, extending 

 from Spain and Italy to Siberia, Russia, Finland, 



