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WHEATEAR. 



FALLOW-CHAT. WHITE-TAIL. 

 STOKE-CHACKEB. CHACK-BIED. CLOD-HOPPEK. 



Syloia cenanthe, PENNANT. LATHAM. 



Motacilla atnanthe, LINNAEUS. MONTAGU. GMELIN. 



" " WILLUGHBY. EAY. 



Saxicola cenanthe, FLEMING. SELBY. BECHSTEIN. 



Sylvia. SylvaA. wood. CEnantheSome species of bird, imagined 



to be the Wheatear. 



MOST plentiful in the more temperate parts of Europe, the 

 Wheatear is found more or less throughout the Continent, 

 from the shores of the Mediterranean to those of the Frozen 

 Sea. In Holland they are very abundant; they are also found 

 in Dalmatia and Greece, Denmark, Sweden, and the Ferroe 

 Islands, Noway, Lapland, and Iceland. In Asia they have 

 been observed, in Asia Minor. In Arctic America one, but 

 only one, was seen by Captain James Ross, R.N., in Felix 

 Harbour, on the 2nd. of May, 1830, but it was killed by 

 cold or hunger the same night. 



The Wheatear is found in greater or less plenty from the 

 Land's End to Cape Wrath. In Yorkshire I continue to 

 notice a few of these birds near the 'Langton Wold' cricket- 

 ground, a spot which, for the beauty of its panoramic view 

 can hardly be equalled, certainly not exceeded, by any other 

 cricket-ground in England; in the exquisite purity of the air 

 to be there enjoyed it also stands pre-eminent, as well as in 

 the excellence of the ground itself for the noble pastime. 

 Others are to be seen along the low cliffs between Bridlington 

 Quay and the solitary house of Auburn, the only relic of 

 the village of that name; not, I suppose, Goldsmith's 'love- 

 liest village of the plain,' for the encroaching ocean has long 

 since washed away the very foundations of it, and the relics 



