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HEDGE ACCENTOR. 8l 



in size. I had no gun with me, or I could very easily Iiave shot 

 it. The bird got very shy at last, I having followed it up very 

 closely. It finally disappeared in a plantation. The bird was a 

 Rock Thrush. I was able to identify the species in a moment 

 after seeing the coloured figure in Morris's British Birds.' 



The specimen figured by Morris is an adult male, a bird 

 which is, perhaps, the most unmistakable from its being the 

 most showy of European species, and thus we are able to say 

 that there can be no reasonable doubt as to Mr. Bedlington's 

 identification of it. 



ACCENTOR MODULARIS (L.). 

 Hedge Accentor. 



Resident ; generally distributed, there not'being a district in the county from 



which it is not reported ; common, except in moorland localities. A spring 



and autumn migrant. 



'Accentor modularis, hedge sparrow.' — 77io'iias AlHs, 1844. 



As an abundant and familiar resident, the Hedge Sparrow, 

 for as such it is best known to Yorkshiremen, demands but 

 little attention. It is common or general in the wide-spread 

 localities affording the usual simple haunts of the bird, namely 

 gardens, shrubberies and hedge-rows; though in the dale and 

 moorland districts of the county, where stone walls are in 

 vogue, and the habitations of man are few and far between, 

 it is not very abundant; but it is usually to be found where its 

 requirements are existing. Mr. J. J. Baldwin Young informs us 

 that he has noticed a great increase south of Sheffield during 

 the last few years. 



As an immigrant from the continent, however, it is worthy 

 of further consideration at our hands. A summer visitant to 

 northern Europe, seeking a southern winter abode, the bird 

 occurs, though in varying numbers, on our sea-board in the 

 autumn season, remaining through the winter, thus making it 



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