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chiefly on the different species of aphides ; but it will not refuse small 

 flies, or caterpillars, or a rose branch covered with aphides ; and it 

 will soon become very tame in confinement." One that I caught in 

 September, was in three days afterwards let out of its aviary into the 

 room to catch the flies, which were numerous at that season; after 

 amusing itself for some time in catching- flies, it began singing- ; it did 

 the same several other times when it was let out, and in a few days it 

 began to sing in its aviary. It soon became so familiar, that it would 

 take flies out of the hand ; and when it was out in the room, if a fly 

 was held towards it, it would fly up, and take it out of the hand. It 

 was also taught to drink milk out of a tea-spoon, by putting some flies 

 in it ; as soon as it tasted the milk, it was very fond of it, as most of 

 the birds of this genus are ; if the spoon was held towards it, and it was 

 called < sylvia,' it would fly up, and perch on the finger, or on the handle 

 of the spoon, and drink the milk ; but it never got so tame as the fauvette 

 becomes, neither was it so expert in catching flies ; perhaps the reason 

 was, it became so very fat from eating so much bruised hemp-seed and 

 bread, and milk and bread, that it cared but little for any other thing. 



These birds are very plentiful some seasons, flying about from tree to 

 tree, and singing their sweetly soft note, which is not unlike the song 

 of the redbreast, but not so loud. Wherever any plants are infested 

 with any kind of aphides, there the willow wren is always certain to 

 be, often quarrelling and flying after one another ; and they will even 

 attack other birds that are much larger than themselves. The willow 

 wren seems to be more tender than the fauvette, to which it is 

 nearly related ; when in confinement, it is fond of creeping up to the 

 other birds for the sake of their warmth, particularly at night ; and it 

 will not rest till it is very near to one, against which it squeezes itself 

 as close as possible : this is also the same with the fauvette, (Sylvia 

 hortensis.)"* 



HEATHER BLUITER. — A name for the Snipe. 

 HEATHFOWL.— A name for the Moorfowl. 

 HEATH THROSTLE.— A name for the Ouzle. 

 HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER.— A name for the Turnstone. 

 HEDGE ACCENTOR.— A name for the Hedge Chanter. 

 HEDGE CHANTER, (Accentor modularis, Cuvier.) 



*Accentormodularis, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. p. 368 — Motacilla modularis, Linn. Syst- 



1. p. 329. 3.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 952. sp. 3 Sylvia modularis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 



2. p. 511. sp. 13 — Cuiruca sepiaria, Briss. 3. p. 394. 12 — Le Mouchet, Traine 

 Buisson, ou Fauvette d'Hiver, Buff. Ois.5. 151 lb. pi. Enl. 615. f. 1.— Fau- 

 vette de Bois, ou Rousette, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 139 Accenteur Mouchet, Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 249 Schiefer Brustiger Sanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 



p. 245. — Frisch, t. 21. f. 2. B. — De Winter Zanger, Sepp, Nederl. Vbg. 4. t. p. 

 404 Hedge Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 150.— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 418. H Will 



