O F B I R D S. 
and their belt inftruflor will be an old Night¬ 
ingale. 
The HANG NEST. 
Upper part of the body a dufky green, beneath dufky 
orange, a black line above and beneath the eye. 
It inhabits America, and makes a curious pen¬ 
dulous neft. 
The HEDGE SPARROW. 
Above a dufky grey, the coverts of the wings white at 
the points: The breaft a blueifh afh colour, or flate 
colour. 
It inhabits Europe, not farther north than 
Sweden ; lays four or five pale blue eggs. 
In England the Hedge Sparrow is very com¬ 
mon all the year, in France it is a bird of paflage ; 
it comes in autumn, and leaves that country in 
the fpring. They travel in companies, and alight 
in hedges, living from bulh So bufh. 1 he neft 
is built very low in garden hedges, or fome fmall 
bulh, or fometimes upon the ground ; it is com- 
pofed of mofs on the outfide, of wool, and horfc- 
hair within ; it lays five eggs of.a light blue co¬ 
lour, and without fpots. If a cat or any other 
animal fhould approach its young, like the Par¬ 
tridge, 
