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on : it is an early breeder, making the nest in a bush, near the 

 ground, or sometimes on the ground beneath a stone ; it is composed 

 of moss and bents, lined with hair, and sometimes a few feathers; the 

 eggs five or six, of a bluish green, sparingly marked with faint 

 rufous spots ; whether this bird partially migrates, or only changes 

 the abode, for the sake of a greater plenty of food, is not generally 

 agreed on ; but although it is certainly seen the winter through, the 

 numbers are fewer, and I have had reason to think that at such 

 times more will be found in low marshy situations than elsewhere. 

 It is not on record for any thing like a song, except a warbling kind 

 of note, which it utters in the spring, and chiefly on the wing ; but 

 the general note, according to Buflbn, imitates the word Ouistrata, 

 frequently repeated ; though in my opinion, more like a clicking of 

 stones together, one being held in each hand, hence perhaps the 

 name of Stone-chatter. It inhabits various parts of the Continent of 

 Europe, from Sweden to the Cape of Good Hope at least, but in no 

 place more common than at Gibraltar, where it is seen in every part 

 of the district, chiefly on the heaths and commons where furze 

 abounds, and there found at all seasons. 



Inhabits India, comes to Calcutta in September, and departs in 

 April; often found among the thickets of Hogle or Typha, and feeds 

 on insects. I observe a pair of these in Gen. Hardwicke's drawings ; 

 in these the colours are the same as in the European Species, but 

 darker, and better defined. 



A — Le Traquet patre, Levail. Afr.'w. 88. pi. 180. 1.2. 



This has the whole head brown black, round the neck white ; 

 breast rufous ; lower belly, thighs, and rump, white ; quills and tail 

 brown ; on the middle of the wing a spot of white. This is the 

 male. 



