

48 BLACK-HEADED BIRDS. 



REED-WARBLER 5 inches; in form, general colour, 

 habits, and note similar to the Sedge- Warbler, but lacks 

 the heavy white eyebrow, and its song is more even and 

 subdued. 



NOTES TO 'BLACK-HEADED BIRDS.' 



BLACK-HEADED GULL. This bird, being entirely white ex- 

 cept the gray upper parts and, in summer, the black head, has been 

 described under 'WHITE SEA-BlRDS.' 



TERNS. White sea-birds with long, slender wings and tail, the 

 latter deeply forked, and with gray upper parts and black caps ; 

 but because in other respects white, described under ' WHITE 

 SEA-BIRDS.' 



STONECHAT. A 5-inch perching bird of the gorse common, 

 with head and throat entirely black and separated from the largely 

 black upper parts and wings by a white patch on the sides of the 

 neck ; but because of the bright-chestnut breast, described under 

 RUDDY-BREASTED BIRDS.' 



