BRITISH BIRDS. 
male attends the female, and fits by turns ; he like- 
wife procures her food, fuch as flies, worms, and 
infe&s. The Black-cap fings fweetly, and fo like 
the Nightingale, that in Norfolk it is called the 
Mock-nightingale. Buffon fays that its airs are 
light and eafy, and confift of a fucceffion of modu- 
lations of fmall compafs, but fweet, flexible, and 
blended. And our ingenious countryman, Mr 
White, obferves, that it has ufually a full, fweet, 
deep, loud, and wild pipe, yet the ftrain is of fhort 
continuance, and its motions defultory ; but when 
this bird fits calmly, and in earnefi: engages in fong, 
it pours forth very fweet but inward melody, and 
expreffes great variety of fweet and gentle modu- 
lations, fuperior perhaps to any of our warblers, 
the Nightingale excepted ; and, while they warble, 
their throats are wonderfully diflended. Black- 
caps feed chiefly on flies and infects, and not un- 
frequently on ivy and other berries. 
