DUNNOCK. 



SHUFFLE-WING. HEDGE- SPARROW. HEDGE-WARBLER. 

 WINTER FAUVETTE. 



Accentor modularis, JENTNS. 



Motacilla modularity LINN.KUS. 



Sylvia modularis, LATHAM. 



Curruca sepiaria, BRISSON. 



Accentor A chanter, (a factitious word.) 

 Modularis. Modular To sing to warble to trill. 



UNOBTRUSIVE, quiet, and retiring, without being shj, 

 humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and 

 unpretending in its dress, while still neat and graceful, the 

 Dunnock exhibits a pattern which many of a higher grade 

 might imitate, with advantage to themselves and benefit to 

 others through an improved example. 



It inhabits all the more temperate parts of Europe, going 

 as far north as Norway and Sweden, which it leaves, according 

 to M. Nillson, at the approach of winter. In Italy it is 

 plentiful in the latter season; so it is also in France; arriving 

 there in October, and leaving in the spring. In Asia, my 

 friend Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland has noticed it, in Asia 

 Minor, in December. 



It is common likewise in Scotland and Ireland. It occa- 

 sionally visits Orkney in October. It was observed near 

 Kirkwall during the winter of 1842, and again in the same 

 season in 1844. 



Hardy in its habits, it needs not to migrate, but remains 

 in its local habitation throughout the year. In the depth of 

 winter, indeed, it approaches more nearly to houses, which 

 again it leaves with the change of season for the hedge-side, 

 the garden, the orchard, the plantation, or the pleasure-ground; 

 and there, or among bushes, it passes its summer, seldom 



