. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . feathers ovate, of moderate length, with eighteen quills, of which thefirst is minute and pointed, the third longest, the second andfourth very little shorter; the primaries rounded, the secondariesbroadly rounded. Tail of moderate length, straight, slightlyemarginate, of twelve rather weak rounded feathers. The Warblers are small
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . feathers ovate, of moderate length, with eighteen quills, of which thefirst is minute and pointed, the third longest, the second andfourth very little shorter; the primaries rounded, the secondariesbroadly rounded. Tail of moderate length, straight, slightlyemarginate, of twelve rather weak rounded feathers. The Warblers are small, generally delicate, active, and livelybirds, which frequent woods, thickets, hedges, and gardens,feed on insects and small fruits, and amply repay the slightdepredations which they commit, by their pleasantly modulatedsong. Four species occur in Britain, all migratory, arriving inthe beginning of summer and departing after the middle ofSeptember. This genus differs little from the preceding or thefollowing ; the tarsi, however, are shorter and the bill weakerthan in Luscinia; and the latter organ is wider, and less com-pressed toward the end than in Phyllopneuste, 339 SYLVIA ATRICAPILLA. THE BLACK-CAPPEDWARBLER, OR BLACKCAP. Fig. 170. Motacilla Atricapilla. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 332. Sylvia Atricapilla. Lath, Ind. Orn. IL 508. Blackcap. Mont. Orn. Diet. Bee-fin a t^te noire. Sylvia Atricapilla. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 201. Blackcap. Sylvia Atricapilla. Selb. Illustr. I. 209. Sylvia Atricapilla. Black-cap Warbler. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 108. Male with the upper parts light yellowish-grey^ the head blackythe lower parts ash-grey^ paler behind^ and tinged icith yellow ;wings and tail greyish-brown. Female similar ^ but with the headreddish-brown. Male.—The Black-capped Warbler, although not remarkablefor beauty of colouring, is elegantly formed, and distinguishedabove all our native species of its genus, excepting the GardenWarbler, by the excellence of its sweetly m
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