WHEATEAR. 



SAXICOLA ^NANTHE. 



Family Passerid^. Sub-family Turdin^e. Genus Saxicola. 



Fallow Chat— White Tail— Stone Chacker— Chackbird-Clod 

 Hopper. 



This active little bird is commonest throughout Scot- 

 land. Throughout England and Ireland it is also pretty 

 generally distributed, though it is rarer in the southern 

 counties of England. The open country and wild 

 tracts are its favourite haunts. They come over to us 

 at the end of March and leave again in September. 



A striking little chap is the Wheatear, as he sits 

 perched upon a wall or rock eyeing you and jerking his 

 tail as though to keep his balance, very much as the 

 Wagtail does. He is not easily mistaken for any other 



