. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ingchiefly in the involution of the edges of the lower mandible,and the greater muscularity of the stomach, in consequence ofwhich the species become partly granivorous. They move onthe ground with a kind of gait intermediate between leapingand walking, and search for insects, worms, pupae, and seedsnear the shelter of bushes, to which they ret
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . ingchiefly in the involution of the edges of the lower mandible,and the greater muscularity of the stomach, in consequence ofwhich the species become partly granivorous. They move onthe ground with a kind of gait intermediate between leapingand walking, and search for insects, worms, pupae, and seedsnear the shelter of bushes, to which they retreat on being dis-turbed. Our common species, Motacilla modularis of Lin-naeus, has been with propriety referred to the genus ; but,although it has received that name, it is not so remarkablefor melody as many other species of the Linnaean , it is not altogether inaptly named, and Accentor isjust as applicable to the genus as Sylvia, Saxicola, and Fruti-cicola, are to their respective groups. Besides the common and generally distributed Accentormodularis, one or two individuals of another species have oc-curred in England. 251 ACCENTOR MODULARIS. THE HEDGECHANTER. HEDGE SPARKOW. HEDGE WARBLER. DUNNOCK. Motacilla modularis. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 329. Sylvia modularis. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 511. Hedge Warbler. Mont. Orn. Diet. Accenteur mouchet. Accentor modularis. Temm. Man. dOrn. L 249. Hedge Accentor. Accentor modularis. Selb. Illustr. L 248. Accentor modularis. Hedge Accentor. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 103. Upper part of the head and neck grey, streaked with brown ;the back reddish-brown, icith dark brown spots; the fore-neckand breast dull ash-grey, the sides streaked u-ith brown. Male.—This familiar, gentle, and modest little bird, thevery emblem of innocence, is perhaps the most despised of allour native species. Had it swaggered along in a red jacket,or screamed from the top of every eminence, or throttled allthe smaller birds that cam
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