. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . all-note is a musical, piping, single note, distinctand distinctive. STONECHAT—5i inches; head, neck, and throat black ;sides of neck white; bill longer, slender, straight, andpointed. A bird of open gorse-lands. Call-note, V-tach ! BLACKCAP—5i inchea ; a brilliant songster ; brown above ;gray-breasted; white below; pointed bill. The rim ofthe cap does not descend below the eye nor includethe chin as in the Bullfinch. BLACKCAP. — Plate 21. Length, 5^ colour of upper parts, wings, and tailashy-brown; neck and un
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . all-note is a musical, piping, single note, distinctand distinctive. STONECHAT—5i inches; head, neck, and throat black ;sides of neck white; bill longer, slender, straight, andpointed. A bird of open gorse-lands. Call-note, V-tach ! BLACKCAP—5i inchea ; a brilliant songster ; brown above ;gray-breasted; white below; pointed bill. The rim ofthe cap does not descend below the eye nor includethe chin as in the Bullfinch. BLACKCAP. — Plate 21. Length, 5^ colour of upper parts, wings, and tailashy-brown; neck and under parts ashy-gray, thelatter becoming white on the belly; head cappedwith glossy black. Summer migrant. Eggs.—4—5, whitish, mottled with ash and lightbrown, and having a few isolated spots and streaksof dark brown; TS^SS inch. There is a varietytinged with red (plate 123). Nest.—Of dry grass, lined with root-fibres andhair, and placed a few feet from the ground in thefork of a branch of a bush. Distribution. — Local throughout England and Plate COAL-TITMOUSE. Plate 23.
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