PASSE RES. ( 83 ) SYLVIID^. 



THE HEDGE SPAEROW. 



HEDGE WARBLER, DUNNOCK, DICK DUNNOCK, SHUFFLE-WING. 



Accentor modularis. 



The sooty-plumed Hedge Sparrow freqtient acts 



The foster-mother, warming into life 



The youngling destined to supplant her own. 



Grahame, The Birds of Scotland. 



This well-known, modest, and unobtrusive bird is resident 

 in tbe county throughout the year, and frequents our 

 hedge-rows, gardens, and woods, during spring, summer, 

 and the early part of autumn. Towards the approach of 

 winter it draws nearer to the neighbourhood of houses, 

 farm buildings, and villages, where it picks up such scanty 

 food as it can find in the shape of small seeds, crumbs of 

 bread, and the like. It is one of the few birds which do 

 not desert us even in the severest snow-storms, such as that 

 of January 1881, when it was seen coming to our windows 

 in company with House Sparrows, Blackbirds, Eobins, 

 Chaffinches, and Titmice, to be fed on the crumbs from our 

 tables. 



And who can grudge so small a grace 

 To suppliants, natives of the place ? 



COWPER. 



The Hedge Sparrow commences to sing very early in the 

 year, its short and sweet song being frequently heard in 



