266 British and European birds. 



And, as if enough it were not, 



While we suffer various ill, 

 From the kite, hawk, stote* destroying, 



Man our cup of woe must fill ! 



Nets and traps, deceitful birdlime, 



Lays he often in our way ; 

 And he even trains our fellows, 



To entice us— to betray. 



I my little brood had nurtur'd — 

 Hope had much for me in store — 



Came a boy — a wanton school-boy, 

 And my darlings from me tore ! 



Tell me not man's noble nature 

 Spurns the chains of base control ; 



Tell me not that such a creature, 

 Has a great, a generous soul. ( 48 ) 



(4 8 ) Order, Passeres, (Linn.) Heuge-Spaurow. 



The Hedge-Sparrow, Hedge- Warbler, Titling, Dannock, 

 or Motacilla Modularis, (Linn.) is brownish, with blackish 

 streaks ; size of the redbreast ; builds in box hedges, low 

 bushes, hawthorn hedges, and dry brakes ; nest neat; externally 

 of green moss, &c. internally lined with hair; eggs five, light 

 blue. Common to Europe, and very common in this country. 

 The cuckoo generally lays her egg in the nest of this bird. — See 



* A species of weasel. 



