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CHICK-STONE. 



slender, three toes directed forwards ; the outer toe joined to the 

 middle one by a short membrane ; the inner toe separate. Tail slightly 

 rounded or square. Wings of middle size, the first quill a little shorter 

 than the second, which is the longest in the wing. 



CHARLIE MIFTIE. — A name for the Wheatear. 



CHEPSTER.— A name for the Starling. 



CHERRY-FINCH.— A name for the Haw-finch. 



CHERRY-SUCKER and CHERRY-SNIPE.— Names for the 

 Beam-bird. 



CHICKELL. — A name for the Wheatear. 



CHICK-STONE (Saxicola rubicola, Bechstein.) 



*Saxicola rubicola, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 3. p. 694. — Sylvia rubicola, Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 2. p. 523. 49.— Motacilla rubicola, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 332. Yl.—Gmel. 

 Syst. 2. p. 969.— Rubetra, Briss. 3. p. 428. 25. t. 23. f. 1. male.— (Enanthe 

 nostra tertia, Raii, Syn. p. 76. A. 4.— Will. p. 169. t. 41.— Motacilla Tsehe- 

 cautschia, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 997. sp. 175.— Le Traquet, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 215. t. 

 13.— Ib. pi. Enl. 678. f. 1.— Traquet Patre, Temm. Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 246.— 

 Le Vaill. Ois. d'Afriq. 4. pi. 180. f. 1. & 2. old male.— Swartzkehliger Stenis- 

 cbmatzer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 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. Orn. Diet.— 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. 1. p. t. 233. male.— Sweet's Br. Warbler, p. 16 Flem. p. 68— Selby, 



pi. 48. figs. 3. 4. p. 203. 



Provincial. — Stone-Chatter. Stone-Smick. Blacky-Top. Moor 



Titling.* 



This species weighs five drams ; length five and a half inches. The 

 bill is black, broad at the base, and beset with bristles ; irides dusky. 

 The head and throat black ; on each side the neck is a large white spot ; 

 the feathers on the back are black, edged with tawny ; the lower part 

 of the rump and tail coverts white, in some spotted ; the breast is of a 

 deep rust-colour ; belly lighter ; quill-feathers dusky ; the lesser ones 

 edged on their exterior webs with bright rust-colour ; the coverts of 

 the wings black, slightly tipped and edged with rusty brown, except 

 some of the larger series next the body, which are of a pure white, 

 making a large conspicuous spot on the wing ; the tail is black, slightly 

 tipped and edged with pale brown ; legs black. 



Male birds of the first year have the black feathers on the head 

 mixed with rufous. 



The female has no black on the head, but is of the same colour as 

 the back, which is lighter than that part in the male ; on the throat is 

 an obscure dusky spot ; the white on the rump is also wanting, but it 

 possesses that mark on the wings. 



The stonechat has much the habits of the whinchat, frequenting 

 commons and furzy places, where they sit upon the uppermost sprays, 



