PLATE XXXVII, 
The Hedge Sparrow. 
The bird reprefented in this plate is held in no eftimation either for it's, fong or it's beauty, 
confequently not caged as many fmall birds are. It is of a tame and inoffenfive nature, and fre- 
quents fmall cottages, gardens, and yards, in purfuit of it's food, which are grubs, caterpillars, 
fpiders, &c. &c. It's fong is rather fhort, but pleafing, which it warbles morning and evening. 
It builds it's neft in a hedge commonly by the fide of a wood, which is compofed of both dead and 
green mofs, lined with cow's hair, and generally built flat and wide, in which the bird lays five eggs 
which the Cuckoo frequently fucks, and takes pofleffion of to lay her egg in, leaving that to be 
hatched and brought up by the litde bird we are defcribing; which tenderly fupplies the wants of 
the young Cuckoo till by its fize the Hedge Sparrow is terrified and ftands as if it was afraid to dif- 
charge the office impofed upon it. It is with much difficulty this little bird can procure food fuffi- 
cient to fupply the wants of its charge. It is to be remarked that when the Cuckoo leaves the nefl: 
'he Hedge Sparrow takes no further notice of it. 
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