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DUNNOCK. 



SHUFFLE-WING. HEDGE-SPARROW. HEDGE-WARBLER. WINTER FAUVETTE. 



PLATE CVII. 



Accentor modularis, JEXTKS. 



Motacilla modiilaria, LINXJEUS. 



Sylvia mod ul aris, LATHAM. 



Curruca sepiaria, BRISSON. 



THE nest 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,' pages 658-9, 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 commonly used 

 by the Hedge-Chanter in the construction of its nest, and contained a 

 single egg. One has been known built on a disused garden roller. An 

 outhouse is sometimes made use of for the purpose. 



It is deep and well rounded, and from four and a half to five inches 

 in diameter on the outside, and nearly two inches deep. It is made of 

 small twigs and grass, lined with moss and then with hair, grass, wool, 

 or down, or any appropriate substances at hand. 



The eggs, which are sometimes seen so early as the beginning of 

 April, are four or five, rarely six, though sometimes it is said, seven, 

 in number, and of a very elegant greenish blue colour, with a rather 

 glossy surface. Archibald Hepburn, Esq., records in the ' Zoologist/ 

 page 434, his having seen an egg of this species, which was thrown 



