WHEATEAR. 531 



WATER OUZEL and WATER PYET. — Names for the Dipper. 



WATER RAIL.— A name for the Bilcock. 



WATER SPARROW.— A name for the Reed Sparrow. 



WATER WAGTAIL.— A name for the Pied Wagtail. 



WEAVER BIRDS. — * I have thus termed those birds which inter- 

 weave the materials of their nests into a kind of cloth, of which I have 

 details in a chapter of " Architecture of Birds."* 



WEB-FOOTED BIRDS (Natatores, Illiger.)— * Those having 

 their toes united by a membrane, to fit them for swimming.* 



WEESEL COOT.— A name for the young Smew. 



WHAUTIE. — A name for the White Throat. 



WHAUP. — A name for the Curlew. 



WHEATEAR (Saaicola CEnanthe, Bechstein.) 



Saxicola (Enanthe, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. — Sylvia (Enanthe, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 

 529. 79.— Motacilla (Enanthe, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 332. 15.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 

 966. sp. 15.—Retz. Linn. Fauna Suec. p. 259. sp. 242— Raii, Syn. p. 75. A. 1. 

 — Will. p. 168. t. 41.— Vittaflora, Briss. 3. p. 449. 33.— Le Moteux ou Vitrec, 



Buff. Ois. 5. p. 237 lb. pi. Enl. 554. f. 1. 2.— Traquet Moteux, Temm. Man. 



d'Orn. 1. p. 237. — Grauriickiger, Steinschmatzer, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. 

 p. 251. B.— Wheatear, Fallow Srnich, or White tail, Br. Zool. 4. No. 157.— 



Arct. Zool. 2. p. 420. P — Lath. Syn. 4. p. 465. 95 Tb. Supp. p. 182 



Selby, pi. 48. fig. 1. p. 199.— Lewins Br. Birds, 3. t. 110.— Mont. Orn. Diet. 



— Will. (Angl.) p. 133. t. 41 — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 9 Wale. Syn. 2. t. 241. 



— Low's Faun. Oread, p. 72. — White Rump, Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. p. t. 329. 

 male. — Fallow Chat, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 67. 



Provincial. — Fallow-Finch, or Fallow-Smith. White-tail. Snorter. 

 Stone Chacker. Chickell. Chack Bird. 



This species weighs about six drams and a half; length near six 

 inches and a half. The bill is black, and considerably broad at the base, 

 where it is beset with bristles ; irides hazel. From the nostril is a black 

 streak through the eye, taking in the coverts of the ear ; over each eye 

 a white stroke meeting on the forehead ; the upper part of the head 

 and back cinereous grey ; rump, upper and under tail coverts, white ; 

 quill-feathers dusky, mostly edged with light rust-colour ; coverts 

 black, tipped with rusty yellow ; under part of the neck buff ; breast 

 and belly yellowish white ; tail white, the two middle feathers black 

 at the end for about an inch, the rest tipped half an inch with the same ; 

 legs and claws black. 



The female is about a dram heavier than the male ; has all the 

 markings of that sex, but less vivid ; the white on the forehead and 

 over the eye, as well as the black streak, is very obscure ; and the cine- 

 reous grey on the back is mixed with brown. 



The Wheatear is a migrative species, appearing with us the latter 

 end of March ; some few probably remain the whole year, as we have 



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