30 HEDGE SPARROW 
ACCENTOR MODULARIS (Linn.). HEDGE 
SPARROW. 
Rouen Wran, Lirrte TurusH, BLurE Buntre. Manx, Drein- 
mollagh=Rough Wren, rendered by Cregeen, ‘the bird 
tomtit’; *Ushag-Keeir = Grey Bird; *Boght-Keeir, 
*Bo’keeir= Poor Grey (Bird). 
Here, as throughout the British Isles, abundant and 
familiar, the Hedge Sparrow is well known to every Manx 
boy by one or other of the above sometimes irrational 
names. Mr. Crellin, writing in 1893, thinks, however, that 
in the north of the island the bird is becoming scarce. 
Mr. Kermode also believes that it has within the last 
twenty or thirty years grown less common. Wherever 
there is cultivation or habitation, however, I see it, and in 
the end of May 1901 we met with a pair on the Calf of 
Man in the neighbourhood of our cottage, which already 
had young on the wing. It nests usually in April, some- 
times earlier. 
Stay-at-home bird as it appears, it is not unknown at 
our lighthouses, where single specimens are several times 
reported. According to the Migration Report for 1881, 
numbers appeared at the Point of Ayre in the autumn of 
that year, a hundred being reported on 5th September, but 
there may be a doubt as to the species on those occasions 
intended by Hedge Sparrow. 
The species is found, perhaps sparingly, in the Outer 
Hebrides and Orkneys; it is a straggler in Shetland. It 
reaches some of the most desolate of the Irish isles. 
