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BLACK-CAP WARBLER. 



( Sylvia atricapilla.) 



Sy. testaceciy subtus cinerea, pileo obscuro. 



Testaceous Warbler, beneath ash-coloured, with the top of the 



head obscure. 

 Sylvia atricapilla. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 508. 6. 

 Sylvia melanocephala. Lath. Lid. Orn. 2. 509. 7' var. male. 

 Sylvia moschita. Lath. Lrid. Orn. 2. 509. 8. var. female. 

 Motacilla atricapilla. Lin. Syst. Nat, 1. 332. 18. — Lin, Faun, 



Suec. 256. — Gmel. Syst. Nat, 1. 970. 

 Motacilla melanocephala. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 970. var. 

 Motacilla moschita. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 970. var. 

 Curruca atricapilla. Briss. Orn, 3. 380. 6, 

 Fauvette a tete noire. Buff, Hist, Nat. Ois, 5. I25.pl. 8.f. 1. 

 Black-cap. Pen, Brit, Zool. 1. 148. — Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 418. 



F. — Ray. Birds. 79. 8. — Will. Ang. 226. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 



415. 5. — Lexvin, Brit. Birds. 3. pi. II6. — Mo?if. Orn. Diet. 1. 



— Bewiclc. Brit. Birds. 1. 217 . 

 Sardinian Warbler. Lath. Syn. Sup. IL, 236. 2. var. 

 Rufous-crowned Warbler. Lath, Syn, Sup. II. 236. 3. var. 

 /3. corpore toto albo nigroque vario. 

 With the whole body varied with black and white, 

 Curruca albo et nigro varia. Briss. Orn. 3. 383. 

 Black-cap Warbler. Lath. Gen. Syn, 4. 4l6. a. 

 y. supra nigricans, lateribus griseis, gula alba. 

 Above dusky, with the sides grey and the throat white. 

 La petite Columbaude. Biiffl Hist, Nat, Vis. 5. 131. 

 Blap-cap Warbler. Lath, Gen. Syn, 4. 4l6. b. 



The Black-cap Warbler weighs about four 

 drachms and a half: length near six inches : beak 

 brown : irides dark hazel : the male has the upper 

 part of his head black : the hind part of the neck 



