20 WARBLER. 



13.— HEDGE SPARROW. 



Sylvia modularis, Ind. Orn. ii. 511. 



Motacilla modularis, Lin. i. 329. Faun. suec. No. 245. Gm. Lin.'i. 952. Brun, No. 



264. Muller, No. 266. JFWscA, t. 21. Borowsk, iii. 186. 

 Accentor modularis, Tenj. ilfan. p. 121. Id. Ed.'u. 249. 

 Curruca sepiaria, £ri*\ iii. 394. Id. Svo.i. 420. Gerin.iv. t. 391. f. 2. 

 Sylvia gula plumbea, Klein, 77. III. 4. 

 Curruca Eliotae, /?a»", 79. A. 6. Will. 157. 

 Die Baum-Nachtigall, Naturf. xvii. 100. 



Magnanina Aldrovandi, Will. 157. Zinnan. Uov. 45. t. 6. f. 30. 1. 

 Traine-buisson, Mouchet, Fauvette d'Hyver, Ui(/. v. 151. PI. enl. 615. 1. 

 Passera salvatica, Cett. Uc. Sard. 205. 

 Braunelle, Gunth. Nest. it. Ey. 1. 1 — lower fig. 

 Hedge Sparrow, Gen. Syn.\v. 419. Br. Zool. i. No. 150. /t/./o/. t. S. 1. f. 3. 4. Id. 



Ed. 1812. i. p. 519. Collinses Birds, pi. 9. f. 1. 2. ^rcf. Zoo/, ii. 418. H. Alb. 



iii. pi. 59. Id. Song Birds, pi. p. 81. Will. Engl. p. 215. SAaw's ZeoZ. x. 661. 



Bewick's Birds, i. pi. in p. 213. Leivin, Birds, iii. 102. Wale. Birds, \\. pi. 232. 



Pi(/(. Dors. p. 9. Orn. Z)icf. Graves's Br. Orn. V. iii. 



THIS well-known species is five inches and a half long, and 

 weighs nearly six drachms. The bill is blackish ; irides hazel ; head 

 deep brown, mixed with ash-colour ; the cheeks marked with oblong 

 spots of dirty white; the back and wing coverts dusky, edged with 

 reddish brown ; quills and tail dusky ; rump greenish brown ; throat 

 and breast dull ash-colour ; belly dirty white ; sides, thighs, and vent, 

 pale tawny brown ; legs dull flesh-colour. In the female the colours 

 are less bright. 



Inhabits this kingdom throughout, and seen every where in the 

 in the hedges, at all seasons ; it genei'ally begins to build in March,* 

 the nest composed of moss and wool, and lined with hair, laying 

 four or five pale blue eggs:t although it remains with us the whole 

 year, it is said to be migratory in France, coming there in October, 



* In a sheltered vallej^ of Wiltshire, the nest of a Hedge Sparrow was found, with three 

 eggs in it, on the 23d of January, 1796. 



t " The eggs of this bird, neatly emptied, and wired, fair ladies wear at their ears, for 

 " pendants." — Ray's Letters, p. 135. 



