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Notes, long and shrill. Local and other names : 

 Oven Bh'd, Jinney Wren, Scotch -'Wren, Yellow 

 Wren, Hay Bird (a name also applied to the White- 

 throat), Hnckmiick (also applied to the Long Tailed 

 Tit), Ground Wren. A close sitter. 



WATERMEN. See Moorhen. 



WHEATEAR. 



Description of Parent Birds. — Length about six 

 inches. Bill fairly long, strong, and black, with a 

 few bristles at the base. Irides hazel. Crown, nape, 

 and back bluish-grey, tinged with light brown ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts white. Wings nearly black, 

 some of the feathers edged and tipped with buff. 

 Tail-quills, upper two-thirds white, the remaining 

 third black and broad. From the base of the beak, 

 through the eye to the ear-coverts, is a band of 

 black, over which is one of white, running from the 

 forehead. Chin and throat dull white ; breast pale 

 cream colour, turning to a dull yellowish-white on 

 the remainder of the under-parts. Legs, toes, and 

 claws black. 



The female is somewhat similar, except that she 

 is browner, on her upper-parts. 



Situation and LocaJitij.- — Holes in dry walls, 

 heaps of stones, old mine hillocks, under lumps of 

 stone jutting from steep hillsides, in chinks of rock, 

 quarries, peat stacks, and occasionally in rabbit- 

 burrows. Our illustration is from a photograph of 

 an old mountain limekiln in Westmoreland, which 

 contained two nests, one inside and the other out, 

 that is, one having its entrance from the inside and 

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