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It is really a rather silent bird. The Chatterers are pro- 

 perly the Cotingidce. 



Chatterpie : The MAGPIE. (Staffs, and Norfolk.) It is 

 proverbially a noisy bird. 



Chauk or Chauk Daw : The CHOUGH. (Scotland.) From its 

 cry. 



Cheat: The GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. (Upton-on- 

 Sevem.) 



Cheeper, Grey Cheeper, or Moss Cheeper. Common Border 

 names for the :MEAD0W-PIPIT. 



Cheeser: The yellow bunting. (Northants.) From the 

 dra^Ti-out termination of its song. 



Cheeter : The RED-BACKED SHRIKE. (Provincial.) 



Chepster : The STARLING. A modification of Shepster 

 (=Sheep-stare). Chep-Starling is foimd in Tunstall, wliile 

 Ship-Starling and Sheep-Starling are Yorkshire provincial 

 names. 



Chequer Bird : The WHIMBREL. 



Chercock: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Westmorland.) Pro- 

 bably a corruption of Shercock. " Chm"cock " is also 

 applied to the same species in Yorkshire. 



Cherry Chirper : The SNOW-BL^"TING (?). (Rutty.) 



Cherry Chopper. Cherry sucker, Cherry snipe : The 

 SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (Pro^incial.) Whether this 

 species is ever destructive to cherries is verji^ doubtful, 

 although it has been knoAMi to eat berries, such as those 

 of the moimtain ash. 



Cherry Fixch : The HA\^TINCH. (Swaledale, Yorkshire.) 

 From its fondness for cheiry-stones. 



Cherubim : The BARN-0\AT.." 



Chestnut-backed Thrush : The FIELDFARE. (Macgillivray.) 



Cheverel or Chevil. A bird-fancier's term for a variety of 

 the GOLDFINCH having a red patch on the throat. Skeat, 

 as cited b}- Newton, thought it to be from Old Eng. ckefle, 

 or chefelen, to talk idly or chatter, hence " cheveller," a 

 chatterer. Nelson and Clarke give the name as in use in 

 Yorkshire, and make it s\Tionvmous ^ith the so-called 

 " Pear-tree Goldfinch." 



Chewy Linnet or Chivey Linnet : The LESSER RED- 

 POLL. (Yorkshire.) ^ 



Chickell or Chicker : The WHEATEAR. 



Chickstone : The STONECHAT. (Cleveland, Y^orkshiie.) In the 

 same district " Chetstone " is applied to the WHEATEAR. 



