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IEDGE-SPARRO Yd, 
Defcription and Character. 
T HIS bird is con fiber ably I a Is than the 
common. Sparrow ; it has a pretty Ion a; 
{lender bill, of a dufky or bird th colour, and ho 
well known, that a long defcription or him is 
unneeeflary; there is hardly a boy that learches 
the hedges, but can give an account of its nefi, 
eggs, &c. 
This is not lo defpicable a bird as a great ma- 
ny imagine; for, if you mind its fong, you will 
find very delightful notes in it, and not a little 
variety ; they fing very early in the Spring, and 
are frequently kept in cages by curious perions, 
who value them much. 
The Cuckoo, who* builds no neft oi her own, 
generally drops her egg in the neil of this bird, 
where it is hatched by the Hedge-Sparrow to 
the certain defcrudtion of her own young. 
