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 W. Houghton

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 W. Houghton

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 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

"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 William Henry Giles Kingston 1847