14 THE BIRDS OF CUMBERLAND. 



easiest method for finding the nest is to go after 

 sundown, just allowing time enough to see, to the 

 place which you believe contains the birds, and, 

 there arrived, carefully tap all the heather, whin, 

 and likely tussocks of grass with a long stick. The 

 bird sometimes flies directly away from the nest, but 

 never very far. Generally it runs off and creeps out 

 of your sight, or takes short flights from covert to 

 covert. Possibly some pairs rear two broods, for 

 we have found the full clutch of eggs on the 17th of 

 May ; and Mr. Tom Duckworth has obtained per- 

 fectly fresh eggs on August 6th. Nestlings have 

 spotted tongues. Mr. Tom Duckworth remarks 

 that eggs of this species which he has received from 

 the south of England are not so large or so beauti- 

 fully mottled as his local specimens. 



Sub-Family ACCENTORIN^. 

 Genus ACCENTOR. 



A. Modularis. Hedge Sparrow. 



The Hedge Sparrow is a numerous resident, 

 breeding up to 1,200 feet on the east fells, where it 

 is known as the creepy-dyke. One or two white 

 and pied specimens have come under our notice 

 locally — the prettiest being a bird in the collec- 

 tion of Mr. Hodgkinson. In this bird, which 

 was obtained near Carlisle, the primaries are 

 white, and so are the throat and lower jDarts, but 

 a slight zone of brown crosses the breast from side 

 to side. 



