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Motacilla atricapilla, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 352, N° 18. — Faun. Suec. N 9 256. — 5' 



T?T ^VCICCAP. 

 Scop. ann. i. N° 229. — Brun. orn. N° 278. 279. — Muller, p. 33. 



N° 277. — Kram. el. 377. 15. — Fri/ch. t. 23. — Olin. uc. pi. in p. 9. 

 La Fauvette a tete noire, Brif. orn, iii. p. 380. N° 6. — i?a/". <k/~. v. p. 125. 



pi. 8. f. 1. 

 Blackcap, Rati Sjn. p. 79. A. %.~Will. orn. p. 226. — Br. Zoo':, i. N° 148. 



— Aril. Zool, 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



T N fize lefs than the Pettichaps : length five inches and a quar- Description. 



ter. Bill brown : the top of the head is black : the upper 



parts of the body greenifh alh-colour : fides of the head, and 



under parts, grey, changing to very light grey, or almoft white, 



towards the vent : the quills and tail cinereous brown, margined 



with the fame colour as the upper parts : the tail has the two 



middle feathers rather the fliorteft : Jegs lead-colour : claws 



black. 



The female differs from the male only in having the head of a Female. 



ferruginous chefnut-colour, inftead of black. 



This bird is not unfrequent in England, and elfewhere in Place and 

 „ r T , . ,,,.,, p . ■ , Manners. 



Europe, as tar as Italy ; in all which places it is known to breed ; 



coming in fpring, and retiring in September. 



With us it makes but one neft in the year*, which is generally 



placed in fome low bufh, not far from the ground. It is com- 



pofed of dried ftalks, mixed with a little wool and green mofs 



round the verge : the infide lined with the fibres of roots, thinly 



covered with black horfe-hahv 



* In Italy it builds twice in the year.— Olina.. 



The- 



