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their tameness, and the young that are hatched from their 
situation.” 
In a nest thus easily found the Cuckoo is apt to deposit 
her egg, and Mr. Slaney says more Cuckoos are fostered 
by the Hedge Warbler than by any other bird. 
The eggs of the Hedge Warbler are four or five in 
number, sometimes, though rarely, six, of a delicate and 
spotless bluish green colour; nine lines and a half in 
length, by six lines and a half in breadth. According 
to Mr. Jenyns, the first brood of young birds is hatched 
in April, and a second brood is reared in the season. 
The Hedge Warbler goes as far north in summer as 
Sweden ; but, according to M. Nilsson, most of them leave 
that country before winter. It inhabits all the temperate 
parts of Europe, but goes southward in autumn; it is 
even said to leave Genoa in October, but to be found in 
every hedge about Rome and the southern parts of Italy 
in winter. It is found in Sicily and Malta. Mr. 
Strickland obtamed this bird at Smyrna in December ; 
but it was considered rare in that locality. 
The beak is dark brown, but lighter in colour at the 
base; irides hazel; head, nape, and sides of the neck, 
bluish grey, streaked with brown, except behind and _ be- 
low the ear-coverts, where the grey colour is unmixed 
with brown; back and wings reddish brown, streaked 
with dark brown; upper tail-coverts plain hair-brown ; 
wing-primaries and tail-feathers dusky brown;  tertials 
margined with reddish brown; chin, throat, and chest, 
grey; breast and belly buffy white; sides and flanks 
pale brown, streaked with dark brown; under surface 
of wings and tail-feathers greyish brown ; the tail slightly 
forked: legs and toes orange brown; claws black; the 
hind claw as large again as either of the other three. 
