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WHINCHAT. 



GEASSCHAT. FUEZECHAT. 



Sylvia rubetra, PENNANT. 



Motacilla rubetra, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Saxicola rubetra, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Rubetra major, BRISSON. 



(Enanthe secunda, KAY, 



Sylvia. SylvaA wood. Rubetra. RubetumA place where 



brambles or bushes grow. 



THEEE is something in the appearance of this bird, which, 

 accustomed as one may have been to its constant recurrence 

 summer after summer, still attracts the eye, as if the object 

 were one which presented some novelty of form, or attractive 

 peculiarity hitherto not observed, which could not but be 

 regarded with new attention. 



It is found in Europe in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and 

 the temperate parts of Russia, and throughout the whole of 

 the southern parts of the continent France, Germany, Greece, 

 Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, to the shores of the Mediter- 

 ranean. It occurs also in Asia Minor. 



In Yorkshire, this is one of the most common of the 

 summer visitants, as also in various other counties Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Dorset, Devon, Northumberland, Wilts., Hants., 

 Somerset, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Gloucester- 

 shire; in Cornwall, it is more rare as you advance westwards, 

 but one has been killed at Scilly, as recorded by Edward 

 Hearle Eodd, Esq., in the 'Zoologist,' page 3276: it also 

 occurs in Wales. In Scotland it travels even to Sutherland- 

 shire, Eosshire, Morayshire, and Aberdeenshire ; and in Ireland 

 is more or less plentiful throughout the island. 



It occasionally visits Orkney in the summer, and has been 

 observed once or twice in Sanday, but is not known to breed 

 there. 



