. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. XURDID^— WA RBLERS. 89 the 14th of May [1850]. The nest was built solely of reeds, and exactly re- sembled that represented in the Zoologist (p. 1307). It contained five eggs uniformly freckled all over with minute dark brown ; More (33. 23) regards this record with doubt, and it is hard to do otherwise, though it is quite possible that it is genuine. Green was a dealer in skins and a bird-stuffer. Alpine Accentor : Accentor collaris. A rare and accidental straggler to Britain, where it has occurred a
. The birds of Essex: a contribution to the natural history of the country. Birds. XURDID^— WA RBLERS. 89 the 14th of May [1850]. The nest was built solely of reeds, and exactly re- sembled that represented in the Zoologist (p. 1307). It contained five eggs uniformly freckled all over with minute dark brown ; More (33. 23) regards this record with doubt, and it is hard to do otherwise, though it is quite possible that it is genuine. Green was a dealer in skins and a bird-stuffer. Alpine Accentor : Accentor collaris. A rare and accidental straggler to Britain, where it has occurred about a dozen times. The first British example met with was obtained in Essex. Mr. James Pamplin of Whip's Cross Nursery, Walthamstow, says (12. V. 288) : " A few years since I shot a small bird in a garden on the bor- ders of Epping Forest, which I did not know, nor could anyone tell me what it was, till within a fortnight a gentleman requested me to allow him to take it to Lon- don. He accordingly went to Mr. Gould, Naturalist, 20, Broad Street,. ACCENTOR, J/3. Golden Square, who sends me an account of its being the Accentor alpinus, or Alpine Warbler, the only one known to have been killed in England with the exception of one in Dr. Thackeray's garden at ; Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun.,who has carefully investigated the history of this speci- men, has ascertained that it was shot in August, 1817, in the garden of Forest House, close to Mr. Gurney Barclay's fields, from among a number of Chaffinches which flew up from one of the beds, and that it is still in Mr. Pamplin's posses- sion (37. i. 279). Hedge Sparrow: Accentor modularis. Locally " Hedge- bet," " Hedge-betty," or " ; An abundant resident everywhere. It is sometimes styled the "Hedge Accentor," which name is scientific- ally correct, as it is not nearly related to our mischievous enemy the House Sparrow. Mr, Walter Crouch has told me of a whit
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