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Notes, long and shrill. Local and other names : 

 Oven Bird, Jinney Wren, Scotch Wren, Yellow 

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

 throat), Huckmuck (also applied to the Long Tailed 

 Tit), Ground Wren. A close sitter. 



WATERMEN. See MOOEHEN. 



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 Locality. 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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