black-caps

Flocks of goldfinches and long-tailed tits were flitting about, and they spied some black-caps and pipits, and even a buzzard falcon poised in the air high above the cliffs.

Monitress Merle Angela Brazil 1907

While Audubon's warblers kept themselves for the most part among the pines on the slopes and acclivities, the little black-caps preferred the lower ground.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

And the birds, the robins and the throstles, the blackbirds and the black-caps, the linnets and the little

The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

Broad-meshed nets were hung on either side of a path on the fringe of a plantation, and in the middle of the path were placed cages containing the decoys, whose songs soon attracted all the birds of the neighbourhood -- red-breasts, white-throats, black-caps, nightingales, fig-peckers of all sorts.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 2 ��mile Zola 1871

Broad-meshed nets were hung on either side of a path on the fringe of a plantation, and in the middle of the path were placed cages containing the decoys, whose songs soon attracted all the birds of the neighbourhood -- red-breasts, white-throats, black-caps, nightingales, fig-peckers of all sorts.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

Broad-meshed nets were hung on either side of a path on the fringe of a plantation, and in the middle of the path were placed cages containing the decoys, whose songs soon attracted all the birds of the neighbourhood -- red-breasts, white-throats, black-caps, nightingales, fig-peckers of all sorts.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

A porcelain-lined baking dish, or a _gratin_ pan, is the best dish for cooking the black-caps in, because either can be set upon a clean plate and sent to the table; if the apples have to be removed from the dish in which they were baked they may be broken, and then the appearance of the dish will be spoiled.

Twenty-Five Cent Dinners for Families of Six Juliet Corson 1869

In a few moments the dapper little man was in the woodshed, with a large bouquet of hot-house flowers in one hand and a basket of delicious black-caps in the other.

Tracy Park Mary Jane Holmes 1866

Winnie had some firecrackers, and, in the evening, Merton and Junior set off a few rockets, and we all said, "Ah!" appreciatively, as they sped their brief fiery course; but the greater part of the day had to be spent in gathering the ripening black-caps and raspberries.

Driven Back to Eden Edward Payson Roe 1863

These, he wrote, would also do for black-caps this season, and for strawberries next year.

Driven Back to Eden Edward Payson Roe 1863