76 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 



houses : it is formed of moss and wool, and lined 

 with hair.* 



The following description is taken from Yarrell : 

 " The beak is black at the point and yellowish white 

 at the base ; the irides hazel ; head, neck and ear- 

 coverts brownish grey ; feathers of the back brown, 

 with longitudinal central patches of darker blackish 

 brown; rump greyish brown; wing primaries blackish 

 brown ; the centre of each tertial still darker, edged 

 on both sides with reddish brown, varied with black, 

 and tipped with a spot of white ; upper surface of the 

 tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with buff; chin, 

 throat and front part of the neck dull white, with a 

 small black spot in each feather ; chest dark grey ; 

 the breast and flanks varied with chestnut-coloured 

 patches; under tail-coverts dark greyish brown, 

 edged with dull white; under surface of the tail- 

 feathers ash-grey, tipped with dull huffish white; 

 legs and toes orange-brown; claws black." The 

 plumage of the female is not so bright as that of the 

 male. 



The eggs are much like those of our common 

 Hedgesparrow, but larger and rather more intense 

 in their colouring, f 



HEDGE ACCENTOR, Accentor modularis. The 

 Hedge Accentor, or as it is more commonly called 



Yarrell, vol. i., p. 251. 

 Hewitson. 



