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ORD. III. GEN. XL WARBLER. 



SPE. III. FEMALE BLACK-CAP. 



PI. ioo*. 



This bird differs confiderably from the male in appearance ; the crown of 

 the head being of a nifty chefnut colour, the upper parts of the body and wings 

 of a light olive brown, and the white on the under parts having fomewhat of a 

 dirty yellowifh caft. 



The black-cap is firft feen with us about the beginning of April, and departs' 

 in September. Its fong is little inferior to that of the nightingale, whence it is 

 called the mock nightingale in Norfolk. It makes its neft in a low bufh, pret- 

 ty near the ground, of dried ftalks of goofe grafs, mixed with a little wool, and 

 green mofs round the edge, lining it with the fibres of roots, thinly covered 

 with horfe-hair. The eggs are five in number, of a reddifh brown, clouded 

 with a darker colour, and marked with a few fpots of black. For the egg, fee 

 PI. XXIII. Fig. i. 



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