hedge-warbler

“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.”

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children

“The birds, too, have done singing, with the exception of the robin and the hedge-warbler, which even in the winter occasionally cheer us with their welcome notes.”

Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children

“Its song is powerful -- similar to that of the hedge-warbler.”

The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America

“It has no true claim to be a Christian Church at all," said the general; "it is like the cuckoo, which, hatched in the nest of the hedge-warbler, by degrees forces out the other fledglings, and usurps their place.”

Clara Maynard The True and the False - A Tale of the Times