482 BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



chick-chack-chack. Local and other names : White 

 Rump, Fallow Chat, Fallow Smick, Chacker, Chack- 

 bird, Clodhopper, Fallow Finch. A close sitter. 



YOUNG WHEATEARS. 



WHIMBREL. 



{Numenius phoeopus.} 

 Order LIMICOL.E ; Family SCOLOPACID^: (SNIPES). 



Description of Parent Birds. Length about six- 

 teen inches. Bill long, slender, curved downward, 

 and brown ; dark at the tip, and lighter towards 

 the base. Crown dark brown, with a light central 

 streak, and another passing from the base of the 

 beak over the eye and ear-coverts ; neck brownish- 

 grey, streaked with dark brown. Wings dark brown, 

 the feathers being margined and spotted with pale 

 brown and white ; rump white, streaked sparingly 

 with brown. Tail-quills ash-brown, barred with 

 darkish brown. Chin white ; upper breast light 

 brown, streaked with a darker tinge ; lower breast 

 and belly almost white ; flanks dull white, barred 

 with brown. Lower tail-coverts white, streaked 



