dish brown, varied with black, and tipped with a spot of
white; upper surface of tail-feathers dark brown, tipped with
buff: chin, throat, and front of the neck, dull white, with a
small black spot on each feather ; chest dark grey; the breast
and flanks varied with chestnut-coloured patches : under tail-
coverts dark greyish brown, edged with dull white ; under
surface of tail-feathers ash grey, tipped with dull buffy white:
legs and toes orange brown ; claws black.
Length of the bird described six inches and a half. From
the carpal joint of the wing to the end of the longest wing-
feather three inches and five-eighths : the first feather very
short, the second feather longer than the fourth, the third
the longest in the wing.
The females do not differ in plumage from the males, except
that their colours are not so bright.
The species of this genus are very limited in number, only
five, I believe, being at present known. Two are figured
in this work as belonging to England: two others are found
in the North and East of Europe; and a fifth has been received
from the Himalaya Mountains. M. Temminck includes
the Accentor alpinus in his Catalogue of the Birds of
Japan, and it will be remembered that country is intersected
by ridges of mountains.
1NSESSORES.
DENTIROSTRES.
SYLVIADJE.
T H E HEDGE ACCENTOR.
Sylvia modularis, Hedge Warbler, P en n . Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 509.
Motacilla „ „ ,, M ont. Ornith. Diet.
lt it B ewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 251.
Accentor ,, ,, Sparrow, Feem. Brit. An. p. 71.
&, Accentor, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 248.
■ t ,, ,, J enyns, Brit. Vert. p. 103.
,, ,, G ould, Birds of Europe, pt. xvii.
,, Accenteur Mouchet, T emm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 249.
T he H edge A ccentor, or Hedge Warbler, better
known to many by the name of Hedge Sparrow, is so generally
diffused over the British Islands as to make any enumeration
of particular counties unnecessary; except that
although found in the Western Islands of Scotland, I have