hedge sparrow

the dunnock.

Origin of hedge sparrow

First recorded in 1520–30

Nearly allied to our hedge-sparrow, and less closely to the Central Asian A. immaculatus.

Island Life |Alfred Russel Wallace
But when she handed him the eggs Little Fawn said "It was not the eggs of the hedge-sparrow we were wont to eat in my time."

The Boy Who Knew What The Birds Said |Padraic Colum
If youd tie the correct label to the hedge-sparrow shed know that, too, he said.

Adrienne Toner |Anne Douglas Sedgwick
It lays about six eggs, which closely resemble those of the Hedge-sparrow, only that they are smaller.

British Birds in their Haunts |Rev. C. A. Johns

Then the pedlar said to the hedge-sparrow, "Pay me for my blanket, or I'll wring your neck."

The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories |Mary De Morgan

hedge sparrow

a small brownish European songbird, Prunella modularis: family Prunellidae (accentors) Also called: dunnock