154 ACCENTOR 



N. China and Corea; as a straggler has been met with in 

 Austria. 



Frequents bush-covered localities, gardens, and the borders 

 of streams in the valleys, and in general habits does not differ 

 much from the Hedge Accentor. Its call note is a low whistle 

 and its song is short and unpretentious but pleasant, and the 

 Chinese near Peking keep it as- a cage bird. It breeds in 

 Siberia, and its nest and eggs have been taken on the Yenesei. 

 The nest, which is constructed of small twigs and dry grass 

 lined with moss and a few hairs, is placed either low down, in 

 the stump of an old tree near the ground, or as high as about 

 eight feet above the ground in the fork of a willow, and the 

 eggs 4 to 6 in number closely resemble those of the Hedge 

 Accentor. 



219. HEDGE-SPARROW. 

 ACCENTOR MODULARIS. 



Accentor modularis, (Linn.) Syst. Nat. i. p. 329 (1766) ; Naum. iii. 

 p. 951, Taf. 92, figs. 3, 4 ; Hewitson, i. p. 97, pi. xxvii. fig. 1 ; 

 Gould, B. of E. ii. pi. 100 ; id. B. of Gt. Brit, ii. pi. 55 ; Newton, 

 i. p. 301 ; Dresser, iii. p. 39, pi. 100 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. vii. 

 p. 649 ; Saunders, p. 93. ; Lilford, iii. p. 4. pi. 2 ; A. orientalis, 

 Sharpe, op. cit. p. 652. 



Moiichet, French ; Churruca, Span. ; Passera scopaiola, Ital. ; 

 Hecken-Braunelle, German ; Boeren-Nachtegall, Dutch ; Brunellen, 

 Dan. ; Jernspurv, Norweg. ; Jernsparf, Swed. ; Rautiainen, 

 Finn. ; Lisnaya-Zamrooslika, Russ. 



$ ad. (England). Upper parts reddish brown streaked with dark 

 brown, the head and nape greyer, the rump dull olive-brown scarcely 

 streaked ; wings and tail brown, the former margined with buffy brown 

 and rufous brown, the wing-coverts tipped with yellowish brown ; throat 

 greyish white ; sides of head and neck, and the breast ashy grey ; ear- 

 coverts washed with brown ; abdomen greyish white ; flanks pale brown 

 streaked with darker brown ; bill blackish brown, fleshy at the base ; legs 

 dull yellowish brown ; iris dark brown. Culmen, 0'5, wing 2*7, tail 2'2 

 tarsus 0'75 inch. Sexes alike. 



Hob. Europe generally, north to Lapland ; North Africa ; 

 Arabia, Asia Minor, and east to Persia. 



Frequents groves, gardens, &c., and is very tame and familiar, 

 frequenting localities inhabited by man, and is one of our best- 

 known birds. It is generally seen creeping about in the hedge- 

 rows where it finds a plenteous supply of small insects and 



