DUNNOCK. 
SHUFFLE-WING. HEDGE-SPARROW. HEDGE-WARBIER. 
WINTER FAUVETTE. 
Accentor modularis, JENYNS. 
Motacilla modularis, LINN ZUS. 
Sylvia modularis, LATHAM. 
Curruca sepiaria, BRISSON. 
Accentor—A chanter, (a factitious word.) 
Modularis. Modulor—To sing—to warble—to trill. 
UNOBTRUSIVE, quiet, and retiring, without being shy, 
humble and homely in its deportment and habits, sober and 
unpretending in its dress, while still neat and graceful, the 
Dunnock exhibits a pattern which many of a higher grade 
might imitate, with advantage to themselves and benefit to 
others through an improved example. 
It inhabits all the more temperate parts of Hurope, going 
as far north as Norway and Sweden, which it leaves, according 
to M. Nillson, at the approach of winter. In Italy it is 
plentiful in the latter season; so it is also in France; arriving 
there in October, and leaving im the sprmg. In Asia, my 
friend Mr. Hugh Edwin Strickland has noticed it, in Asia 
Minor, in December. 
It is common likewise in Scotland and Ireland. I occa- 
sionally visits Orkney in October. It was observed near 
Kirkwall during the winter of 1842, and again in the same 
season in 1844. 
Hardy in its habits, it needs not to migrate, but remains 
in its local habitation throughout the year. In the depth of 
winter, indeed, it approaches more nearly to houses, which 
again it leaves with the change of season for the hedge-side, 
the garden, the orchard, the plantation, or the pleasure-ground; 
and there, or among bushes, it passes its summer, seldom 
