Class II. BLACK-CAP WARBLER. 



505 



Sylvia, atricapilla. S. testacea 

 subtus cinerea, pileo obscu- 

 re Lath. Ind. om. 508. id. 

 Syn. iv. 415. 



Atricapilla. Gesner av. 371, 

 384. 



Aldr. av. ii. 32Q. 



Wil. om. 226. 



La Fauvette a tete noire, Cur- 

 ruca atricapilla. Brisson av. 

 iii. 380. Hist. oTois. v. 125. 

 PL Enl. 580. 



Capinera. Zinan, 56. 



Olina, Q. Scopoli, No. 22Q; 



Raii Syn. av. 79- 



Motacilla Atricapilla. Gm. 



Lin. 970. 

 Faun. Suec. sp. 256. 

 Hav-Skade. quibusdam Spikke. 



Br. 228. 

 Moench mit der Schwartzen 



Platte (Monk witb the black 



crown) Frisch, i. 23. 

 Schwartz plattl. Kram. 377* 

 Br. Zool. 101. plate S. f. 5. 



Arct. Zool. ii. 1 14. 



4. Black- 

 cap. 



JL HIS bird is among the smallest of this tribe, 

 scarcely weighing half an ounce. The crown of 

 the head in the male is black ; the hind part of 

 the neck of a light ash-color ; the back and co- 

 verts of the wings are of a greyish green ; the 

 quil feathers and tail dusky, edged with dull 

 green ; the breast and upper part of the belly 

 are of a pale ash-color ; the vent feathers whit- 

 ish ; the legs of a lead color. The female is dis- 

 tinguished from the male by the spot on the 

 head, which in that is of a dull rust-color. The 

 black-cap is a bird of passage, leaving us before 

 winter. It sings very finely, and on that ac- 

 count is called in Norfolk the mock nightingale. 

 It has usually a full, sweet, deep, loud wild 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



