HEDGE WARBLER. 



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the blue on the front of the neck : the young do 

 not obtain the blue breast till some time after 

 leaving the nest ; that part is then spotted with 

 brown, and, when confined, that colour disappears 

 after the first moult. 



Common in many parts of Europe from Sweden 

 to Gibraltar, but not found in Britain : it frequents 

 marshy places, fixing its nest on willows : it is 

 often eaten, and is esteemed very good: it has 

 an agreeable song, which is often uttered in the 

 night. 



HEDGE WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia modularis.) 



Sy, supra griseo-fusca, tectricibus alarum apice albis, peciore cam- 

 lescente-cinereo. 



Warbler above grey-brown, with the tips of the wing-coverts 



white ; the breast of a grey-blue. 

 Sylvia modularis. Lath, Ind. Orn, 2. 511. 13. 

 Motacilla modularis. Lin. Syst, Nat, 1. 329. 3. — Lin, Faun, 



Suec, 245. — GmeL Syst, Nat, 1, 952. 

 Curruca Eliotse. RaiL Syn. 79. 6. 

 Curruca sepiaria. Briss. Orn. 3. 394. 12. 

 Trai'ne-buisson, Mouchet ou Fauvette d'hiver. Buff, Hist, Nat, 



Ois. 5. 151. g.'-Buff. PI, EnL Q. 5 f, 1. 

 Hedge Sparrow, or Warbler. Albin, Birds, 3, 5g.--'Pen, Brit, 



Zool. 1. 150. — Pen, Arct, ZooL 2. 4t8. h. — Lath, Gen. Syn. 



4. 419. 9. — Leuoin. Brit, Birds, 3, pi, 102. — Mont, Orn. Diet, 



2. — Betoick. Brit, Birds, 1. 213. 



This common bird is somewhat more than five 

 inches in length ; it weighs near six drams : its 



