60 DUNNOCK. 



DUNNOCK. 



SHUFFLE-WING. HEDGE-WARBLER. 

 HEDGE-SPARROW. HEDGE-CHANTER. WINTER FAUVETTE. 



PLATE CVIT. 



Accentor modularis, JENYNS. 



Motacilla modularis, LINNAEUS. 



Sylvia modularis, LATHAM. 



Curruca sepiaria, BRISSON. 



E 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. A pair 



