Definition of "hedge-sparrow" [hedge-sparrow]

• A small European warbler, Accentor modularis, resembling a sparrow in coloration and frequenting hedges. Also called hedge-accentor, hedge-chanter, hedge-chat, hedge-mike, hedge-spick, hedge-spurgie, and hedge-warbler. See Accentor, 2 . (noun)
• An old book-name of the Jamaican guit-guit or rufous-throated tanager, Glossiptila ruficollis. G. Edwards. (noun)
• Some other hedge-bird, supposed to be a sparrow. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Titmouse and blackcap and a hedge-sparrow or so live now alone in the bush and undergrowth: tuitui!"
• "Many birds are imposed upon, one of the commonest victims being the hedge-sparrow."
• "Unlike most other birds, they do not pair; you all know, too, that cuckoos make no nests, but lay their eggs one by one in the nests of various other birds, such as those of the hedge-warbler, or hedge-sparrow as it is generally but wrongly called, robin, white-throat, and other birds."