BLACKCAP WARBLER. 



WSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTKES. 



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SYLVIADM. 



THE BLACKCAP WARBLER. 



Curruca atricapilla. 



Sylvia, atricapilh, Blackcap Warbler, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 505. 



Motacilla MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 258. 



Curruca FLEM. Brit. An. p. 70. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 209. 



Sylvia JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 108. 



Curruca GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



Sylvia Bee-fin a tete noire, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 201. 



CURRUCA. Generic characters. Bill rather stout, short; upper mandible 

 slightly curved at the point, which is emarginated ; gape with a few hairs. Nos- 

 trils basal, lateral, oval, exposed. Wings of moderate size ; the first quill-feather 

 very short, the second longer than the fifth, the third the longest in the wing. 

 Legs with the tarsus short, but longer than the middle toe ; the toes and claws 

 short, and formed for perching. 



THE BLACKCAP is a true Sylvan Warbler, visiting this 

 country from the South and East every spring, arriving 



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