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species,—the “ Robins” of the colonists, some of them remarkable 
for their bright plumage ; and possibly allied to them, as indeed is 
generally thought, with 5 or 6 species peculiar to New Zealand, 
are the genera Miro and Myiomoira. But the late Prof. Parker 
(Trans. Zool. Soc. v. p. 152) saw in the osteology of the first inferior 
characters which appeared to separate them from their presumed 
colleagues, and he termed them “Struthious Warblers.” Like so 
many other forms from the same countries, they probably preserve 
the more generalized structure of earlier and lower types, and 
should possibly be distinguished as a separate subfamily Petrwcine. 
All the birds above mentioned form the group Saaicoline of 
most authors. -Some, however, raise them to the rank of a distinct 
Family Sazicolide (cf. WARBLER, p. 1019); and Dr. Sharpe (Cat. 
B. Brit. Mus. iv. pp. 164-199) has placed Petreca and Praticola in 
the Family Muscicapide (FLYCATCHER). 
WHEW or WHEWER, common names of the WIGEON from its 
call-note. 
WHIMBREL, “the bird that keeps on uttering a cry imitated by 
whim” (Skeat, Trans. Philolog. Soc. 1888-90, p. 22),—a name made 
known to Willughby as being used at the mouth of the Tees, and 
generally adopted in English for Numenius pheopus (CURLEW, 
page 128). 
WHIN-CHAT, the Motacilla, Sazxicola or Praticola rubetra of 
ornithology, a well-known summer-visitant to this country, in many 
parts of which it is common, and from its call-note named Utick. 
It has much of the habit of the STONE-CHAT, especially in perching 
upon whin-bushes, though more affecting enclosed lands and fields 
reserved for hay ; but, unlike that bird, it has no very near ally. 
As a species it has an extensive range, reaching India and generally 
wintering in Africa almost under or perhaps beyond the Equator. 
In spring the cock is very conspicuous with a white streak over the 
eye and another on the side of the throat, his back being of a 
mottled brown and his breast of a delicate buff colour. 
WHIP-POOR-WILL, so named in North America from its ery. 
One of the Caprimulgidxe (NIGHTJAR, page 640), Antrostomus vociferus. 
WHIP-TOM-KELLY, see under Tom. 
WHISKEY-JACK, apparently a ludicrous adaptation of the Cree 
name ‘‘ Whiske-shawneesh” (Swains. and Richards. /. Bor.-Am. ii. 
p- 295) of Dysornithia or Perisoreus canadensis, the common JAY (page 
469) of Canada, occasionally visiting the United States in winter. 
WHITE-EYE, see ZosTEROPS. 
WHITEHEAD, the name in New Zealand for a little bird 
peculiar to the North Island, and now verging on extinction, a 
