j. t 8 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
-bable that this bird is not a Stone Chat, but he may 
belong to another fpecics of the Motacilla. 
The Stone Chat, when fat, is delicious food, 
and nearly equal to the Ortolan. 
The BLACK CAP. 
The crown of the head is black, hind part of the head 
pale afh colour; back and coverts of the wings greyilh 
olive; bread and fiomach light alh colour: crown of the 
female dull ruft colour. 
It is one of the fmalleft of this genus. 
This bird has not the black crown until after 
the firft moulting, before that time the young 
birds refemble young Fig Eaters ; from whence it 
was once flrongly imagined, that Fig Eaters 
were fometimes metamorphofed, or changed into 
Black Caps. 
Its fong is very plcafing, not unlike that of 
the Nightingale, and it is of much longer conti¬ 
nuance ; for, many weeks after that delightful 
warbler is blent, the fong of the Black Cap bill 
make the groves mufical. 
Their notes are eafy, natural, and pleafing; 
trot confifting of any great variety, yet they are 
agreeable, and feem expreflive of the happinefs 
and tranquility of the furrounding feene. The 
male has a thoufand attentions for the female 
whilft 
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