Class II. HEDGE SPARROW WARBLER. 



509 



grass on or near the ground. The eggs are six 

 in number, white speckled with purplish red on 

 the larger end only, with here and there a 

 single speck on the sides. The Lesser petty- 

 chaps resembles the Yellow Warbler in its 

 plumage, but is inferior in size, and its legs 

 are of a much darker hue; it has also been 

 confounded with the Wood wren, but a striking 

 distinction occurs in the tail coverts, which in 

 the latter are of a pure white, while those of 

 this species are tinged with yellow, Ei>.] 



Sylvia modularis. S. supra 

 griseo-fusca, tectricibus ala- 

 rum apice albisj pectore cae- 

 rulescente-cinereo. Lath. 

 Ind. orn. 511. id. Syn. iv. 

 419, 



Le petit Mouchet. Belon. av. 

 375. 



Potamida, obs. 12. 



Passer sepium Angl. Aldr. uv. 

 ii. 329. 



Curruca Eliotce (Zaunschlip- 

 fle). Gesner av. 371. 



Wil. orn. 215. 



Rati syn. av. 79- 



La Fauvette de haye, ou la pas- 

 se buse. Curruca sepiaria. 

 Brisson av. iii. 3Q4. Hist, 

 d'ois. v. 151. PI. Enl. 6l5. 

 f. 1. 



Jarnsparf. Faun. Suec. sp. 245. 



Motacilla modularis. Gm. 

 Lin. 952. 



Braunflekkige Grasmiicke 

 (Brown spotted Petty- 

 chaps.) Frisch, i. 21. 



Br. Zool. plate S. 1. f. 3. 4. 

 Arct. Zool. ii. 115. 



7. Hedge, 



TION, 



A- HIS bird weighs twelve drams. Its head is De3CRI ?- 

 of a deep brown, mixed with ash color, the 

 cheeks marked with oblong spots of dirty white; 



