If the Blackcap were not a Sylvia, he could not well be scientifically named after his black head, for other birds, such as Titmice, have also black heads, and I have frequently heard the Cole Tit described as the Blackcap.
These two (for a wonder) take their scientific names from the characteristics by which sensible English folk have thought best to name them; the Blackcap being Sylvia atracapilla, and the Garden-warbler Sylvia hortensis.
For a while the Blackcap breaks the stillness, and his soft sweet warble is in perfect keeping with the quiet solitude.
The blackcap is often placed next to the nightingale as a songster, but there is a very wide interval between them.
Thrush, Blackbird, and Robin sing fitfully, as also do the Blackcap and Whitethroat and many others.
Similarly, the Blackcap has been known to arrive in March, but its normal date is the first week or so in April.
Professor Rennie says, "I have more than once given the blackcap and other birds a little milk by way of medicine when they appeared drooping or sickly, and with manifest advantage[10].
Many other species of this group do the same thing; for instance, the blackcap and the red-breast, without its having been mentioned.
Mr. Blyth informs as that he had, in the year 1833, a blackcap which struck up all at once into a loud song.
This perhaps depends on the peculiar forms of the bills more than on inclination, for the fauvette and blackcap often attempt to clean their feet without success.
The blackcap is subject to the same diseases as the nightingale, but is more frequently attacked by decline.
For instance, those that build under my roof imitate tolerably the chaffinch that hangs in a cage at my window; and a neighbour of mine has one in his garden that repeats some strains of a blackcap that has its nest near.
Both garden-warbler and blackcap are more often heard than seen, and their song, by those who have never heard the nightingale, is regularly mistaken for that bird's.
The most musical singer we heard was the blackcap warbler.
But here was a note sweet and soft as that, and yet charged with a richness no blackcap's song had ever borne, because no blackcap has ever felt the joys and sorrows of a young human soul.
The blackcap has a climacteric note, just before his song collapses and dies, so full of pathos and tenderness that often, when I had been sitting on a gate in Wilderness Road, it had affected me more deeply than any human words.
Then Morgiana brushed the blackcap from her shoulder, and ran and put her arms about Mary.
As the young Arabian stood, upon her shoulder perched a consequential blackcap cocking his saucy head; and a wood-pigeon was hovering over her lips trying to carry away the grain there in his bill.
Having reached the patch, we found almost as bad a tangle as in the blackcap patch, except that the canes were more upright in their growth and less full of spines or briers.
At one end of the garden were several rows of blackcap raspberry bushes, which had grown into an awful snarl.
You mustn't let Miss Blackcap have it all her own way, you know, that you mustn't.
Miss Blackcap may retire, like Jephthah's daughter, for all Farintosh will relieve her.
Lowe has recently called attention to a very curious method of attracting prey adopted by the Blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) at Orotava, Teneriffe.
Its nest and eggs are so like those of the Blackcap as to be discriminated with difficulty.
While singing it keeps the feathers of its head erected, resembling in this respect the Blackcap and several of the other warblers.
The blackcap warbler I found to be a rare and much overpraised bird.
He pointed out the woodlark and the blackcap to me, and told me where he had seen and heard them.
The Blackcap is notoriously pugnacious, but not more so than the Marsh-Warbler or the Whinchat.
The Blackcap and the Garden-Warbler are constant rivals, and the scenes which can be witnessed when the two meet in competition are interesting from many points of view.
But this does not mean that the Chiffchaff suffers persecution; it is itself most aggressive, as is shown by the fact that it will join in the Blackcap quarrels and attack the combatants indiscriminately.
Even when a male Blackcap is engaged in incubation, it will leave its nest on the approach of a Chiffchaff, and, having driven away the intruder, proceed to sing excitedly.
Occasionally there may be a scuffle, perhaps between a Blackcap and a Lesser Whitethroat, or between a Garden-Warbler and a Blackcap, but it is of short duration and lacks vigour.
As long as you think so ill of us, we'll just run over and tell Blackcap the Night Heron.
Little Joe turned as if to start off in search of Blackcap at once.
The Blackcap prefers the underwood, particularly where higher trees stand solitary; it also nests in gardens, even in the public gardens of large towns, where it feeds on all kinds of insects, and so it serves wood and garden equally well.
The Blackcap loves our old English hedgerows, about which it can find all its necessary insect food and also good cover.
Often the Blackcap builds in a privet hedge, or some bush near to garden or orchard, for the sake of the fruit of which it certainly avails itself a little.
Hoffman represents the song of the Blackcap by the syllables “Rutia, ruetidi-rutia, tuedili, tuedia.
Through the darkness comes the melancholy hoot of the barn owl, while nearer some bird is singing very softly--either a blackcap or a sedge-warbler.
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