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SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA. 



(BLACKCAP.) 



Ficedula curruca atricapilla, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 380 (1760). 



Motacilla atricapilla, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 332 (1766). 



Sylvia atricapilla (Linn.), Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 156. no. 229 (1769). 



Fauvette a tete noire, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 125 (1778). 



Curruca atricapilla (Linn.), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. 



Monachus, Kaup (Sylvia atricapilla, L.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 33 (1829). 



Curruca nigricapilla, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 417 (1831). 



Curruca atricapilla, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 418 (1831). 



Curruca pileata, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 418 (1831). 



Ficedula atricapilla (L.), Blyth, in Rennie's Field-Nat. i. p. 310 (1833). 



Curruca rubricapilla, Landbeck, Vog. Wiirtemb. p. 44 (1834). 



Philomela atricapilla (L.), Swains. Classif. of Birds, ii. p. 240 (1837). 



Epilais atricapilla (L.), Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 36 (1850). 



Curruca ruficapilla, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 227 (1855). 



Fauvette a Ute noire, French ; Tutinegra real, Portuguese ; Pulverilla, Spanish ; Capinera, 

 Italian ; Mbnch, Schwarzkopf, Schwarzkappe, German ; Zivartkop, Dutch ; Sorthovedet- 

 Sanger, Danish ; Munk, Norwegian ; Svarthufvad Sdngare, Swedish ; Mustapaa-Kerttu, 

 Finnish. 



Figures notabiles. 



D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 580. figs. 1, 2; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pis. 37, 38; Kjserb. Orn. 

 Dan. taf. xx. ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 24. figs. 9, 18 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 77. 

 figs. 2, 3, and taf. 368. figs. 1, 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 120 ; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. 60 ; 

 Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pi. 68. 



6 ad. pileo toto nigro : nucha cinerea : dorso, alis et cauda cinereo-fuscis : rnento cinereo-albo : gula et 

 pectore cinereis : abdomine et subalaribus albis : alis et cauda subtiis cinereis : pedibus plumbeis ; 

 rostro saturate corueo : iride fusca. 



2 vix major et brunnescentior : pileo rufescenti-fusco. 



Adult Male (near Reading, May). Entire crown above the eyes deep glossy black, nape bluish ash; back 

 and upper parts generally ashy brown, becoming bluish ashy on the rump and upper tail-coverts ; wings 

 dark brown, with brownish ashy external margins to the feathers ; tail ashy brown, without white on 

 any of the feathers ; underparts ashy grey, the chin, abdomen, and under tail-coverts nearly white, the 

 last with dark centres ; under wing-coverts white ; bill dark horn ; iris brown ; legs lead-colour. Total 

 length about 5 - 5 inches, culmen - 45, wing 2'95, tail 2'45, tarsus - 85. 



