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blackcap
[ blak-kap ]
noun
- any of several birds having the top of the head black, as the chickadee and certain warblers, especially the Old World blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
- the black raspberry plant or fruit.
blackcap
/ ˈblækˌkæp /
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The Blackcap locates her nest amongst nettles and brambles, generally near the ground, but not resting upon it.
Of these I will only mention the blackcap, linnet, and tree-pipit.
And there are two species of this bird, the sycalis and the , or blackcap.
The birds were singing the same as to-day, and the young lady said, 'Now, I want you to tell me which is the blackcap's song.
The Blackcap, like several other of the migratory warblers, returns again and again to its old haunts.
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