AVHINCHAT. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



^YLVIADJE. 



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THE WHINCHAT. 



Sylvia rubelra, The Whinchat, 

 MotiiciUa ,, ,, 



Saiicola ,, ,, 



Traquet tarier, 



Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 525. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 277. 



Flem. Brit. An. p. 67. 



Selbv, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 183. 



Jenvns, Brit. Vert. p. 120. 



Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Tenm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 244. 



The Whinchat, or Furzechat, is in its habits, and also 

 in tlie localities it frequents, very similar to the Stonechat, 

 last described. Its obvious partiality to furze, which is also 

 in many parts of England called whin, has induced its most 

 common names ; and, like the Stonechat, it darts along with an 

 undulating flight from bush to bush, always perching on one of 

 the uppermost twigs. There is one diiference between the 



