THE WHINCHAT. 



Motacilla rubetra. 

 Saxicola rubetra. 



IIS pretty and active little 

 bird is one of our best-known 

 summer visitors. It is com- 

 paratively common in York- 

 shire, Norfolk, Suffolk, 

 Northumberland, Dorset, 

 Devon, Wiltshire, Hampshire, 

 Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, 

 Kent, and Gloucestershire. It 

 is found in Cornwall, but the 

 bird does not seem so partial 

 to the extreme west as to 

 some of the other counties 

 above mentioned. In Scot- 

 land it is found in several 

 districts, and is well distributed 

 throughout Ireland. 



As is indicated by its 

 name, the Whinchat is most 

 frequently to be seen in 

 localities which abound in 

 furzes, or, as the Scotch call 

 them, whins; but it by no 

 means confines its presence to 



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