WARBLER. 13 



silvery white ; breast darker, with a silvery tinge; the wings, when 

 closed, reach to about one-third on the tail, which when spread, 

 appears a trifle forked ; legs bluish lead-colour. 



This is frequent in many parts of England ; makes an oval nest, 

 with a small opening at top, of dry bents, with a little moss, thickly 

 lined with feathers, and placed either on the ground, or a low bush ; 

 the eggs five, white, sprinkled with small red spots, chiefly at the 

 larger end. It comes early, often before the 20th of March, but 

 generally before the 1st of April, and goes away before the end of 

 September ;* is in most places common, but has not yet been observed 

 in Guernsey, although the Willow Wren, a much scarcer bird here, 

 is there in plenty. 



This species is perpetually singing, or rather chirping, the note 

 like the word Twit, five or six times delicately repeated, the three 

 last hastily and short. M. Bechstein calls it Fit; and from thence 

 has derived his trivial name. 



7— BLACK CAP WARBLER. 



Sylvia atricapilla, Ind: Orn. ii. 508. Lin. i. 332. Faun. suec. No. 256. Gm, Lin. i. 



970. Scop. i. No. 229. Brun. No. 278. 279. Muller, No. 277. Kramer, 377. 



Frisch, t. 23. Borowsk. iii. 193. Gerin. iv. t. 398. 1 ? 2. Id. 399. f. 1. Tern. 



Man. d'Orn. 109. Id. Ed. ii. 204. 

 Curruca atricapilla, Bris. iii. 380. Id. 8vo. i. 416. Klein, 79. 14. Id. Ov. 26. t. 10. 



f. 17. Rail, 79. A. 8. Will. 162. t. 41. Id. Engl. 226. 

 Meissen Moenche, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 68. 

 Der Klosterwenzel, Naturf. xvii. 105. 



Fauvette a tete noire, Buf. v. 125. t. 8. f. 1. Pl.enl. 580. 1. 2. 

 Becfigue a tete noire, Hist. Pruv. i. 507. 

 Capinera, Olin. t. p. 9. Zinnan. Uov. 56. t. 8. f. 45. Get. Uc. Sard. 216. 



* Colonel Montagu observes, that some of these stay through the winter in the west of 

 England. He observed two or three of them the 16th of December, 1808 ; and both in 

 December and January, 1806 and 1807. 



