. ind —— equal to the Ortolan, 
ag3 THE NATURAL HISTORY 













bable that this shia is not a Stone Chat, but he rn 
belong to another {pecies of the Motacilla. 
_ The Stone Chat when fat, is delicious fook 
THE BLACK. CAP, 
The crown of the head is black, hind part of the ts 
pale afh colour; back and coverts of the wings greyill 
-olive ; breaft and flomach light afh colour: crown of ih 
_ female dull ruft colour. a 
It is one of the {mallet of this genus. 
_ This bird has not the black crown until afte 
"the frft moulting, before that time. the young 
birds refemble young Fig Eaters ; from whence } 
was once ftrongly imagined, that Fig Eates 
were fometimes metamorphofed, or chang in 
‘Black Caps. of 
lis fong is very pleafing, not’ unlike that 6 
the Nightingale, and it is of much longer cot! 
nuance; for, many weeks after that delight 
warbler is filent, the fong of the Black Cap i" 
make the groves mufical. 7 ’ 
Their notes are eafy, natural, and pleafing 
not confifting of any great variety, yet they # 
agreeable, and feem expreffive of the happitt 
and tranquil ity of the furrounding fcene. — Th 
gale has. a thoufand attentions for the fen y 
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