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BLACKCAP. 



BLACKCAP WARBLER. MOCK-NIGHTINGALE. 

 PLATE CXXI. 



Sylvia atricapilla, PENNANT. JENYNS. 



Motacilla atricapilla, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Motacilla mosquita, GMELIN. 



Curruca atricapilla, GOULD. FLEMING. 



rpHE nest, built about the end of May or the 

 beginning of June, is commonly placed in a 

 bramble or other bush, sometimes in a honey-suckle, 

 a raspberry, or currant tree, about two or three feet 

 or rather more from the ground; sometimes among 

 nettles. It is made of dry grass and small fibrous roots, 

 with occasionally a little moss and hair the latter as 

 a lining, and the outer parts cemented together with 

 spider's webs and wool. It is strong and tolerably 

 compact, though slight. Anything like meddling with 

 it, or intruding upon it, is jealously watched, and the 

 smallest disturbance causes the nest to be forsaken. 

 Several in fact are frequently abandoned, either from 

 apprehension or caprice, before they have been finished. 

 Alfred Newton, Esq., of Elveden Hall, near Thetford, 

 mentions in the 'Zoologist,' page 1024, his having 

 known a nest to be found there on the nth. of March, 

 1845, which contained an egg at that early date. 

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