BLACKCAP WARBLER. 



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In the adult male, the beak is dark horn colour ; the 

 irides dark brown ; all the upper part of the head above 

 the eyes jet black ; nape of the neck ash grey ; back, 

 wings, and tail, ash brown ; chin, throat, and breast, like 

 the nape, ash-grey ; belly and under wing-coverts white ; 

 under surface of quill-feathers and tail grey ; legs and 

 toes lead colour ; claws brown. 



The whole length five inches and three-quarters. From 

 the carpus to the end of the wing, two inches and three- 

 quarters ; the first quill-feather very short ; the second 

 longer than the sixth, but not so long as the fifth ; the 

 third the longest in the wing. 



The female is larger than the male, measuring six inches 

 and one-quarter ; the top of the head chestnut, and the 

 other parts of the plumage more tinged with brown than 

 that of the male. 



Young birds resemble the adult female, but the hood is 

 not so decidedly conspicuous. Young males do not ac- 

 quire the white belly till after their second summer. 



