56 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



Criticizing these remarks, however, the late 

 Mr. Blyth wrote :— 



" Do the males of these birds lose the black 

 cap in winter ? Certainly not the former — at 

 least as observed in captivity — and therefore I 

 cannot help doubting exceedingly that they do 

 so in the wild state. Upon a bad Indian draw- 

 ing of the Orphean Warbler, reproduced in the 

 ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society ' for 

 185 1 (p. 195, pi. 43), the supposed Artamus 

 cucullahis was sought to be established. The 

 habits of the Orphean Warbler are thus de- 

 scribed in Jerdon's 'Birds of India' — in which 

 country, by the way, it passes the winter, the 

 males then retaining their black cap : — ' It fre- 

 quents groves, gardens, hedges, single trees, and 

 even low bushes on the plains ; is very active 

 and restless, incessantly moving about from 

 Dranch to branch, clinging to the twigs, and 

 feeding on various insects, grubs, and caterpil- 

 lars, and also on flower buds. It is sometimes' 

 seen alone, at other times two or three together.' 



