DUNNOCK 



HEDGE-SPARROW SHUFFLE- WING HEDGE-WARBLER 

 HEDGE-CHANTER. 



PLATE CVII. 

 Accentor modularis, LINNJEUS. 



THE nest of the Hedge-Sparrow is generally placed in 

 hedges, low furze or other bushes, or shrubs, a few 

 feet from the ground, but also, in lack of these, in holes 

 of walls, stacks of wood, in the ivy against a wall, and 

 other similar places. The Rev. Charles Forge, of Driffield, 

 records in the Zoologist that he found one among the 

 small branches of an elm tree, standing apart from any 

 hedge. It was placed close to the bole or trunk of the 

 tree, at about ten feet from the ground. Exteriorly, it was 

 composed of wheat straw, intermingled with small recently 

 dead twigs of the elm, to which the dried leaves were still 

 attached. It had no other lining than the green moss com- 

 monly used by the Hedge-Sparrow in the construction of its 

 nest, and contained a single egg. A pair built and reared 

 their young in the aviary of Mr. Thomas Walker, of 

 Rosebank, Tunbridge Wells. 



The nest is deep and well rounded, from four and a half 

 to five inches in diameter on the outside, and nearly two 

 inches deep. It is made of small twigs, roots, and grass, 



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