%6z BLACKCAP. Clafs II. 



IV. The B L A C K C A P. 



Atricapilla. Gefner ay. 371, Raiifyn. am. 79. 



384. Motacilla atricapilla. Lin. fyjf, 



Aldr. av\\. 329. 332. 



Wil. orn. 226. Faun. Suec.fp. 256. 



La Fauvette a tete noire, Cur- Hav-Skade. quibufdam Spikke. 



ruca atricapilla. Brijfon a*v. Br. 228. 



iii. 380. Schwartz plattl. Kram. 377. 



Capinera. Zinan. 56. Br.ZooI. 101. plate S. f. 5. 

 Olina 9. 



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HIS bird is among the fmalleft of this tribe, 

 Defer. JL fcarce weighing half an ounce. The crown of 



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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 a greyifh 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. The 

 female is diilinguifhed from the male by the fpot on 

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

 blackcap is a bird of pafTage, leaving us before 

 winter. It fings very finely; and on that account is 

 called in Norfolk the mock-nightingale* '. 



The laft fpring we difcovered the neft of this bird 

 in zfprucefir, about two feet from the ground ; the 

 outfide was compofed of the dried ftalks of iht goofe 

 grafs, with a little wool and green mofs round the 

 verge ; the infide was lined with the fibres of roots 

 thinly covered with black horfe hair. There were five 



* Calendar of Flora, p. 26. 



eggs 



