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the fummer, but its notes are part of that time 
drowned in the general warble of the feafon. Many 
of the autumnal fongfters feem to be the young 
cock red-breafts of that year. 
The bill is dufky : the forehead, chin, throat aa 
breaft are of a deep orange color: the head, hind 
part of the neck, the back and tail are of a deep 
afh-color, tinged with green: the wings rather 
darker; the edges inclining to yellow: the legs 
and feet dufky. | 
Atricapilla. Ge/ner av. 371, Motacilla atricapilla. Liz. ff. 
384. 332. 
Aldr. av. Il. 329. Faun. Suec. fp. 256. 
Wil. orn. 226. Hav-Skade. pilbsotion Spikke. 
La Fauvette a tete noire, Cur- Br, 228. 
ruca atricapilla. Brifox av. Moench mit der Schwartzen 
Ill. 380. Platte (Monk with the black 
Capinera. Zinan. 56. crown) Fri/fch, I. 23. 
Olina, 9. Scopoli, No. 229. Schwartz plattl. Kram. 377. 
Raii fyn. av. 79. Br. Zool, 101. plate S. f. 5. 
HIS bird is among the fmalleft of this tribe, 
fcarce weighing half an ounce. The crown 
of the head in the male is black: the hind part of 
the neck a light afh-color: the back and coverts of 
the wings are of agreyifh green: the quil-feathers 
and tail dufky, edged with dull green: the breaft 
and upper part of the belly are of a pale afh-color : 
the vent feathers whitifh: the legs of a lead color. 
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