. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ■AC :/,,• deA-Zr^ Ani /<u-/ca wUieOrf^^ Actdirl^lj !Jl ^.■■■jr Ili 4 HARV/:,GAMSRIDGE. :. .SITYMA USA 58 NEST AND EGGS OF THE BLACKCAP. PLATE LVIII. The Blackcap comes to us in April and leaves usagain in September ; inhabits shady \\oods. The nestbefore me is made of small stalks of dried plants, hav-ing little tufts of soft moss here and there intermixed ;the middle co
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . ■AC :/,,• deA-Zr^ Ani /<u-/ca wUieOrf^^ Actdirl^lj !Jl ^.■■■jr Ili 4 HARV/:,GAMSRIDGE. :. .SITYMA USA 58 NEST AND EGGS OF THE BLACKCAP. PLATE LVIII. The Blackcap comes to us in April and leaves usagain in September ; inhabits shady \\oods. The nestbefore me is made of small stalks of dried plants, hav-ing little tufts of soft moss here and there intermixed ;the middle coat consists of a finer choice of the samematerials; and the lining is very fine fibres and blackhair. This nest was built in a low bush, about twofeet from the ground. The eggs are five or six, ofa dull white, with dusky spots. The Blackcap, as Mr. Pennant justly observes, sings finely: it has usually a full, sweet, deep, loud, wild pipe ; yet the strain is of short continuance, and his motions are desultoiy: but when he sits calmly■ and earnestly engages in song, he pours forth very sweet but inward melody, and expresses great variety of sweet and gentle modulations, superio
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