

TURDIDjE. 



Cettia sericea. CETTI'S WARBLES. 



Sylvia sericea, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. ]97 (1820). 

 Sylvia C e 1 1 i, Marmora, Mem. Accad. Torino, xxv. p. 254 



(1820). 

 Bradypterus cettii, Dresser, ii. p. 639. 



Sericea = silky. 



Confused by Temminck (Man. d'Orn. i. p. 194) with Locus- 

 tella luscinioides , and recorded by him (cf. Jenyns, Man. Brit. 

 Vert. p. 107, 1835) as having been killed in England; but it 

 has never been known to occur so far north. It is found in 

 Southern Europe and North Africa, and in Asia as far east as 

 Turkestan.] 



Subfamily ACCENTORIN.E. 



Genus ACCENTOR, Bechstein, Orn. Taschenb. i. p. 191 



(1802). 



Accentor = one who sings with another ; from ad -f cantor, a singer, from 

 cdno = I sing. 



Accentor modularis. HEDGE-SPARROW. 



Motacilla modularis, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 329 (1766) . 



Accentor modularis, Naum. iii. p. 951 ; Macg. ii. p. 251 ; 



Hewitson, p. 97 ; Gray, p. 60 ; I T arr. ed. 2, i. p. 243 ; 



id. ed. 3, i. p. 253; Newton, i. p. 301 ; Gould, ii. pi. 55 ; 



Harting, p. 12 ; Dresser, iii. p. 39. 

 Hedge Accentor, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 223. 



Modularis = that sings in a measured manner ; from modulus = a measure, 

 melody. 



Resident throughout the British Isles, except in the 

 bleakest of the Hebrides ; in Orkney, however, it is an 

 autumnal visitor, and it has been observed once in Shetland. 

 Common almost all over Europe, ranging in winter as far 

 east as Arabia. 



