BLACKCAP— GARDEN WARBLER. 
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Kingsley writes : " Sweet he is and various, rich and 
strong, beyond all English warblers, save the nightingale : 
but his speciality is his force, his rush, his overflow, not so 
much of love as of happiness. The spirit carries him 
away. He riots up and down the gamut till he cannot 
stop himself ; his notes tumble over each other ; he 
chuckles, laughs, shrieks with delight, throws back his 
head, droops his tail, sets up his back, and sings with 
every fibre of his body : and yet he never forgets his 
good manners. He is never coarse, never harsh for a 
single note." ' 
19. Sylvia hortensis. Garden Warbler. 
A summer visitor to all parts of the county and Isle 
of Wight. 
It is nowhere so plentiful as the blackcap, and in 
some localities is scarce ; arriving later than that bird, 
it also remains later in this country, departing about the 
end of September. 
It often makes a great demonstration when its nest 
is discovered, and has been known to fly furiously at 
the intruder. 
It was unknown by Gilbert White, and is not included 
in Bell's Catalogue of the birds of Selborne, and if White 
ever heard this bird, as he must surely have done, he 
doubtless supposed that he was listening to a blackcap. 
^ "Charm of Birds." 
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