Strone-Cuat. FPASSERES. SAXICOLA. 203 
¥~ Stone-Chat.—Saxicola rubicola, Bechst. 
PLATE 48. Figs. 3. and 4. 
Saxicola rubicola, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 694. 
Sylvia rubicola, Lath. Ind. Ornith. 2. p. 523. 49. 
Motacilla rubicola, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 332. 17.—Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 969. 
Rubetra, Briss. 3. p. 428. 25. t. 23. f. 1. male. 
Ginanthe nostra tertia, Raii, Syn. p. 76. A. 4.——Wiil. p. 169. t. 41. 
Motacilla Tschecautschia, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 997. sp. 175. 
Le Traquet, Buff: Ois. v. 5. p. 215. t. 13.—IJd. Pl. Enl. 678. f. 1. 
Traquet Patre, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. v. 1. p. 246.—Le Vaill. Ois. d’Afriq. 
v. 4. pl. 180. f. 1. and 2. old male. 
Swartzkehliger Stenischmatzer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 694. t. 23. 
old male. 
Stone-Chat, Br. Zool. 1. No. 159.— Will. (Ang.) p. 235. t. 41.—Lath. Syn. 
4. p. 448. 46.— Mont. Ornith. Dict.—Lewin’s Br. Birds. 3. t. 108.—Albin. 
1. t. 52.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 239.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 9.—Haye’s Br. 
Birds, t. 39.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 233. male. 
Provincial, Stone-Chatter, Stone-Smick, Moor Titling. 
The Stone-Chat, unlike the two preceding species, is a re- 
sident through the whole year in this country, on open grounds 
and furzy commons, which are its appropriate haunts——In 
its manners it resembles the whin-chat, feeding, like it, up-pooq. 
on worms and insects, taken also occasionally by a similar 
method. I have before noticed the peculiarity in these birds, 
of alighting upon the summit of the object on which they 
perch. It is frequently on the wing, from bush to bush, 
but always flying close to the ground. Its common call is a 
kind of clicking note, compared by Burron to the word 
Oiiistrata ; but, in the pairing season, its song (generally ut- Song. 
tered as it hovers over the furze) is varied and agreeable. 
Like most of our indigenous birds, it commences nidification 
very early in the spring; the spot selected being usually at Nest, &e. 
the bottom of a whin or other bush, and the nest composed 
of moss and dry grass, lined with hair or feathers. It lays 
five or six eggs, of a greenish-blue colour, marked at the 
the larger end with small reddish-brown spots. 
The young, after quitting the nest, are assiduously attend- 
ed by the parent birds, until fully capable of providing for 
