SYLVIA MODULARIS. 
HEDGE WARBLER. 
Generic Character. See Sylvia luscinia. 
Sylvia modulari$ ; supra griseo fusca, tectricibus 
alarum apice albis^ pec tore ccsrulescente- 
cinereo. 
Hedge Warbler. Above greyish brown ; wing co- 
verts tipt with white • breast bluish ash- 
colour. 
Sylvia Modularis, Lath. Ind. Orn. v.2. p. 51 1. Gen. 
Zool. V. 10. p. 669. 
Motacilla Modularis. Lin. Si/st. v. I. p. 329. Gmel, 
Syst. V. 2. p. 952. 
LeMouchet Traine-buisson, ou Fauvette d'Hiver. 
Buff. Hist. d'Ois. v. 5. p. 151. lb. PI. 
Enl. 615. 
Accenter Mouchet. Temm. Man. d'Orn, ed. 2, 
p. 249. 
Hedge Sparrow. Arct. Zool. v. 2. p, 418. Alhin 
Br. Birds, v. 3. t. 59. lb. Song Birds, 
e. 81. 
Hedge Warbler. Br. Zool. Svo. ed. v. I. p. 509. 
Mont. Orn. Diet. Gen. Zool. v. 10. p. 51 1 . 
Winter Fauvette. Bewick's Br, Birds, pt. 1. p. 224. 
^jThIS species is about five inches and a half in length ; 
and weighs rather more than half an ounce. Bill dusky, 
slender ; irides dark ; legs dusky and slender : tbe sexes 
correspond in colour, excepting the breast is more inclined 
to brown, and the tips of the wing coverts more dusky 
in the female. 
