248 INSESSORES. ACCENTOR Accentor 



Plate D. Fig. 3. Represents this bird of the natural size. 

 General Bill strong, straight, and fine-pointed ; the upper niandi- 

 descnp- ^jIq brownisli-black ; the lower one orange-yellow, ex- 



cept the tip, which is black. Head, nape of the neck, 

 rump, and breast pale hair-brown, tinged with grey. 

 Back the same ; with the centres of the feathers black- 

 ish- brown. Scapulars and tertiaries deeply margined 

 with pale reddish-brown. Lesser and greater wing- 

 coverts black : each feather being terminated by a trian- 

 gular white spot. Quills hair-brown, tipped and mar- 

 gined with greyish-white, margined with yellowish- 

 white. Flanks and abdomen orange-brown, margined 

 with yellowish- white. Tail hair-brown; the exterior 

 feathers terminating in a large reddish-white spot upon 

 their inner webs. Legs and feet strong, pale reddish- 

 brown ; hind claw very strong, and much arched. 



HEDGE-ACCENTOR. 



Accentor modularis, Cuv. 

 PLATE XLIII*. Fig. 4. 



Accentor modularis, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1 . 368. 



Motacilia modularis, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 329. 3 Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 952. sp. 3. 



Sylvia modularis, Lath. Ind. Ornitli. v. 2. p. 511. sp. 13. 



Curruca sepiaria, Briss. 3. p. 394. 12. 



Le Mouchet, Traine Buisson, ou Fauvette d'Hiver, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 151. 



Id. PL Enl. 615. f. 1. 

 Fauvetle de Bois, ou Rousette, Buff. Ois. v. 5. p. 139. 

 Accenteur Mouchet, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. 1. p. 249. 

 Schiefer Brustiger Sanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 245. — Frisch, 



t. 21. £ 2. B. 

 De Winter Zanger, Sep. Nederl. Vog. v. 4. t. p. 404. 

 Hedge-Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 150 Arct. Zool. 2. p. 418. H — Will. 



(Ang.) p. 215 Albi7i, 8. t. 59 Lath. Syn. 4. p. 419. 9 — Mont. Ornith. 



Diet — Leivin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 102 Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 9 Wale. Syn. 



2. t. 232. 

 The Winter Fauvette, Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. 213. 



Pkovincial — Dick-Dimnock, Titling, Foolish Sparrow. 



The Hedge- Accentor (more generally known by the name 

 of the Hedge-Sparrow) is a very abundant species through- 



