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ACCENTOR MODULARIS. THE HEDGE 

 CHANTER. 



HEDGE SPARKOW. HEDGE WARBLER. DUNNOCK. DICK-DUNNOCK. 

 SHUFFLE-WING. 



Motacilla modularis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 3"29. 



Sylvia modularis. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 511. 



Hedge Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Accenteur mouchet. Accentor modularis. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 249. 



Hedge Accentor. Accentor modularis. Selb. Illustr. L 248. 



Accentor modularis. Hedge Accentor. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 103. 



Upper part of the head and neck grey, streaked with brown ; 

 the back reddish-brown, icith dark brown spots ; the fore-neck 

 and breast dull ash-grey, the sides streaked u-ith brown. 



Male. — This familiar, gentle, and modest little bird, the 

 very emblem of innocence, is perhaps the most despised of all 

 our native species. Had it swaggered along in a red jacket, 

 or screamed from the top of every eminence, or throttled all 

 the smaller birds that came in its way, it would no doubt have 

 attracted the regard of many, who scarcely deign to look upon 

 it. The only person whom I have ever heard to praise it, 

 was one of whose esteem it might be proud, if any praise 

 could elate so simple a creature. Indeed, I was not a little 

 surprised to hear him call it " a beautiful little bird ;"" but by that 

 epithet he no doubt meant to designate its moral more than its 



