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SYLVIAD.E. 



ItfSESSOfiES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



SYLVIAD^E. 



THE WHINCHAT. 



Saxicola rubetra. 



Sylvia rubetra, The Whinchat, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 525. 



Motacilla MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. i. p. 277. 



Saxicola FLEM. Brit. An. p. 67. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 183. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 120. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Traquet tarier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 244. 



THE WHINCHAT, or Furzechat, is, in its habits, and also 

 in the localities it frequents, very similar to the Stonechat, 

 last described. Its obvious partiality to furze, which is 

 also in many parts of England called whin, has induced 

 its most common names ; and, like the Stonechat, it darts 

 along with an undulating flight from bush to bush, always 



