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chiefly on the ditFerent species of aphides ; but it will not refuse small 
flies, or caterpillars, or a rose branch covered with aphides ; and it 
will soon become very tame in confinement.” One that I caught in 
September, was in three days afterwards let out of its aviary into the 
room to catch the flies, which were numerous at that season; after 
amusing- itself for some time in catching- flies, it began singing- ; it did 
the same several other times when it was let out, and in a few days it 
began to sing in its aviary. It soon became so familiar, that it would 
take flies out of the hand ; and when it was out in the room, if a fly 
was held towards it, it would fly up, and take it out of the hand. It 
was also taught to drink milk out of a tea-spoon, by putting some flies 
in it ; as soon as it tasted the milk, it was very fond of it, as most of 
the birds of this genus are ; if the spoon was held towards it, and it was 
called ‘ Sylvia,’ it would fly up, and perch on the finger, or on the handle 
of the spoon, and drink the milk; but it never got so tame as the fauvette 
becomes, neither was it so expert in catching flies ; perhaps the reason 
was, it became so very fat from eating so much bruised hemp-seed and 
bread, and milk and bread, that it cared but little for any other thing. 
These birds are very plentiful some seasons, flying about from tree to 
tree, and singing their sweetly soft note, which is not unlike the song 
of the redbreast, but not so loud. Wherever any plants are infested 
with any kind of aphides, there the willow wren is always certain to 
be, often quarrelling and flying after one another ; and they will even 
attack other birds that are much larger than themselves. The willow 
wren seems to be more tender than the fauvette, to which it is 
nearly related ; when in confinement, it is fond of creeping up to the 
other birds for the sake of their warmth, particularly at night ; and it 
will not rest till it is very near to one, against which it squeezes itself 
as close as possible ; this is also the same with the fauvette, (^Sylvia 
hortensis.y’ * 
HEATHER BLUITER. — A name for the Snipe. 
HEATHFOWL. — A name for the Moorfowl. 
HEATH THROSTLE. — A name for the Ouzle. 
HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER. — A name for the Turnstone. 
HEDGE ACCENTOR. — A name for the Hedge Chanter. 
HEDGE CHANTER, {Accentor modularise Cuvier.) 
*Accentor modularis, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. p. 368 — Motacilla modularis, Lm/i. Syst* 
1. p. 329. 3 . — GmeL Syst. 1. p.952. sp. 3 — Sylvia modularis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. p. 511. sp. 13 — Cunuca sepiaria, Briss. 3. p. 394. 12 Le Mouchet, Traine 
Buisson, ou Fauvette d’Hiver, Buff. Ois.5. 151 Ih. pi. Enl. 615. f. 1. — Fau- 
veite de Bois, ou Rousette, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 139 — Accenteur Mouchet, Temm. 
Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 249 Schiefer Brustiger Sanger, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 
p. 245 — Frisch, t. 21. f. 2. B. — De Winter Zanger, Sepp, Nederl. Vdg. 4. t. p. 
404 — Hedge Sparrow, Br. Zool. 1. No. 150. — Arct. Zool. 2. p. 418. H. Will 
