ADDENDA 197 
The Stonechat (length 5 inches). A lively 
little vestdent bird, which 1s black and brown, 
with a reddish breast, and marked with white 
on the throat, wings andrump. It loves open 
stony places (whence name) and furze bushes. 
Notes, ‘chat, chat, chat.’ Takes flies in the air 
like the flycatcher. There is also the Whinchat 
(length 54 inches), something like the stone- 
chat in many ways. It isa summer visitor. 
The Redwing (length 84 inches). The 
smallest of our thrushes. A winter visitor 
only. Great numbers are seen and_ shot 
in Guernsey, driven south by cold. Plumage 
brown above, whitish below, with the brown 
spots of the thrush (see Part I, p. 19) on the 
breast. Fvont of wings red (whence name). A 
distinct light line over the eye. They go about in 
flocks in winter. Note, ‘chee-ee-a, chee-ee-a,’ 
uttered during flight which is straight. (The 
Fieldfare, mentioned before, often seen feeding 
in fields in winter in flocks like the redwings, 
is bigger and of a bluish tint. It too has a 
straight flight but utters a‘ chak, chak, chak,’ 
on the wing.) 
The Tree Prpit (length 6 inches). A migrant 
