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FRIENDS OF THE AGRICULTURIST 



kitchen table, or grease from the wagon-wheels, whence its 

 somewhat absurd Dutch name. It builds a nest of grass, 

 wool and hair, under a stone or in a hole in a wall, during 

 the months of November and December and lays three eggs 

 of a bright blue, speckled with rusty-brown in the form of 

 a zone round the blunt end. 



Fig. 12. — Sickle-wing Chal on nest. 



The Sickle-winged Chat (Emarginata sinuata) is brown 

 above, shading into chestnut on the rump, and grey below, 

 tinged with brown on the chest. It can easily be dis- 

 tinguished from the Familiar Chat, which it rather closely 

 resembles, by the sickle-shape narrowing of the first primary 



