266 BRITISH AND EUROPEAN BIRDS. 



And, as if enough it were not. 



While we suffer various ill, 

 From the kite, hawk, stote* destroying, 



Man our cup of woe must fill ! 



Nets and traps, deceitful birdlime. 



Lays he often in our way ; 

 And he even trains our fellows. 



To entice us — to betray. 



I my little brood had nurtur'd — 



Hope had much for me in store- 

 Came a boy — a wanton school-boy. 

 And my darliiigs from me tore ! 



Tell me not man's noble nature 

 Spurns the chains of base control ; 



Tell me not that such a creature. 

 Has a great, a generous soul. (^*) 



(^8) Order, Passeres, (Linn.) Hedge-Sparrow. 



The Hedge-Sparrow, Hedge- fVarbler, Titling^ Dunnock, 

 or Motacilla Modularise (Linn.) is brownish, with blackish 

 streaks; size of the redbreast; builds in box hedges, low 

 bushes, hawihorn hedges, and dry brakes ; nest neat ; externally 

 of green moss, &c. internally lined with hair; eggs five, light 

 blue. Common to Europe, and very common in this country. 

 The cuckoo generally lays her egg in the nest of this bird.— See 



* A species of weasel. 



