PLATE CLII. 



Cdpincra. Olin* Vcc, /. 9. 



Ztnnatu Uov. p, 56, 6^,f, 45, 



CeZ/i uc Sard. 216. 

 La Fauvcttc i tete noire, Buff. 5. />. 125. /. 8./. 1. — P], EnU h 



580./. 2. 

 Melffen Mocnclie, Gunih, Ncft. u. Ey. i. 68. 

 Kloflerwenzel, ' jFr//r/? av, t. 2$.f, 1. 



BLACK-c.Ai>. Pemi. Brit, ZooL 1. 148. — ArB, ZsoL 2./. 41S-i 



Ray, av, 79. 8. 



Black-cap (Sylvia atricapilla). Lalh, Syn, 4. p, 415. 5. — 



6>/7;. 508. 6. 



As the turtle is the emblem oF conjugal fidelity, the Black-cap li 

 that of parental tendernefs ; no bird providing for its young with 

 greater induflry, or more anxious folicitude. In this refpeft the 

 male is not lefs attentive than the female ; while one quits the neft- 

 lings in fearch of- food, tlie other remains to watch the nell and pro- 

 te6t them. When the young are able to fly and leave the neft they 

 alTociate together in families, accompany each other in their daily 

 cxcuifions, and at night rooft together on the fame branch, the male 

 on one fide, the female on the other,' and. the infant brood in the 

 middle between them ; the whole huddled together as clefe aspolfible 

 for the fake of warmth. 



The vocal powers of the Elack-cap are not furpaffed by many of 

 ihe feathered tjibe: it is deiicient in that wild variety which confti. 



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