28 FRIENDS OP THE AGEICULTUEIST 



kitchen table, or grease from the wagon-wheels, whence its 

 somewhat absurd Du tch name . It builds a nest of grass, wool 

 and hair, under a stone or in a hole in a wall, during the 

 months of November and December and lays three eggs of a 

 bright blue, speckled in the form of a zone round the blunt 

 end, with rusty-brown. 



Pig. 10. — Sickle-wing Chat on nest. 



The Sickle-winged Chat {Emarginata sinuata) is brown 

 above, shading into chestnut on the rump, and grey below, 

 tinged with brown on the chest. It can easily be dis- 

 tinguished from the FamUiar Chat, which it rather closely 

 resembles, by the sickle-shape narrowing of the first primary 



