THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 21 



I have listened to its curious notes on Woodl)ury 

 Common, and a specimen in the Exeter Museum 

 was obtained on Stoke Furze Brake, April 2(Jth, 

 1849 ; others being- procured near Plymouth, 

 Axminster, Leigham, and some other localities. The 

 Kev. Prebendary Bassett considers it a rare bird in 

 the Dulverton district, and Mr. Mitchell reports it 

 as seldom met with in North Devon. 



Suhfdmihj AccEXTORiN^ 

 HEDGE SPARRO^y.— ^rr^;//«/- modiihirls, (Linn). 

 An unobtrusive but numerous resident, creeping 

 demurely about our hedgerows, often to be seen 

 flitting about old stacks of wood. In early spring 

 it is a vigorous songster, pouring forth its sweet 

 notes from the sunniiit of some shrub or garden 

 railing. White specimens have come under my 

 notice, aiid some of the pied birds have their plumage 

 prettily varied. 



ALPINE ACCENTOR.— .4rrf??^/- collari^, (Sco})). 

 A RAKE visitant to South Devon. The first procured was 

 shot on the rocks at Teignmouth, January 9th, tl844, 

 by i\Ir. Iv. C. R. Jordan, and was stuffed by Drew, 

 at whose house the E,ev. W. S. Hore referred it to 

 this species ; Mr. Jordan having previously recorded 

 it as a Richard's Pipit (Zool. 1844. p. 560). The 

 following year, Mr. Hore reported a second specimen 

 shot near Torbay, and this bird Professor Newton 

 believes to have been killed at Berry Head ; shown 

 to him by its owner, Mr. Lyte, in 1850. No others 



