STONECHAT. 



STOKECHATTER. STOKECLINK. STONE SMITH. 

 MODE TITLING. BLACK CAP. 



Sylvia rubicola, PENNANT. 



Motacilla Tschecautschia, GMELIN. 



" rubicola, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Saxicola rubicola, FLEMING. SELBY. 



(Enanthe nostra tertia, RAY. WIL.LUGHBY. 



Sylvia. SylvaA. wood. Rubicola. EubusA. bramble. 



Colo To inhabit. 



THIS species is extensively distributed, being found through- 

 out Europe in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and 

 Italy, as also, it is said, in some parts of Russia. In Asia 

 it has been noticed in different parts of Hindostan, and in 

 Asia Minor, as also, according to M. Temminck, in Japan. 

 In Africa Le Vaillant and Dr. Smith obtained specimens at 

 the Cape of Good Hope. 



In England, though nowhere abundant, it is not uncommon 

 in suitable localities in all parts of the island, Yorkshire, 

 Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northum- 

 berland, and other counties; in Ireland also, Scotland so far 

 north as Sutherlandshire, and in the Hebrides. In the 

 Orkneys it makes its appearance but rarely; one was shot 

 near Kirkwall in 1847. 



It frequents uncultivated places, the sides of cliffs by the 

 sea, open moors and heaths, warrens and chases, commons and 

 downs, at least those parts of such where low brushwood, the 

 wild broom, and the gorse, with its golden blossoms, so 

 deservedly the admiration of Linnaeus when in this country 

 he for the first time saw it, the bramble, the juniper, and 

 the sloe, afford it alike a shelter and a home. Such lonely 

 spots it enlivens with its gay and handsome appearance, its 



