NATURE'S CAROL SINGERS. 



THE BLACKCAP WARBLER. 



Although generally dis- 

 tributed in suitable parts 

 of England and Wales, 

 and found breeding spar- 

 ingly in the Lowlands of 

 Scotland and certain 

 parts of Ireland, the 

 Blackcap Warbler is 

 not so common in my 

 experience as the youth- 

 ful student would be led 

 to believe after reading 

 several books I could 

 name upon ornithology. 

 It arrives in this country about the 

 middle of April, as a rule ; but, like manj' 

 other migrants, is liable to some varia- 

 tion of date, being more influenced by 

 the conditions of the weather than the 

 readings of the calendar. It takes its 

 departure again in September, although 

 specimens have been observed during 

 every month of the winter in the South 

 and West of England. 

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