14 WHEATEAR 
SAXICOLA G@NANTHE (Linn.). WHEATEAR. 
SToNECHATTER. Manx, Claghyn-cloie (Cr.)=probably ‘bell of 
the stones’ (from the clinking note); C/achan-ny-gleiee, 
Clogh-ny-cleigh (M.S. D.)=‘stone of the hedge.’ (Cf. Se. 
Gaelic, Clochirean ; Irish, Coisin or Catstin cloch.) 
Common and plentiful as a passing migrant, the Wheat- 
ear is scarce as a nesting bird. A few are, however, 
summer residents in Man, for Mr. Kermode records a nest 
in a stone wall near Castletown, and Mr. Graves, in many 
years’ experience, has seen about six in the Peel district, 
of which he communicates the following particulars. One 
of these was in the stone wall supporting a high earthen 
bank within the limits of the town, another in a stone 
wall at Ballaquane, a third in a sod hedge on the ‘ head- 
lands’ to the north of the bay, and a fourth on Peel Hill. 
In 1901 and 1902 a pair nested on Peel Castle Island 
within the walls; in the latter year they were, on the 19th 
May, building among some loose stones filling up an open- 
ing in one of the ruined buildings. Mr. Graves also states 
that during the whole summer of 1902 a pair seemed to 
remain on the ‘rabbit warren’ on the hill behind Knock- 
aloe. Iam told by Messrs. Allison and Haddon that the 
Wheatear breeds not uncommonly on the ~— hillsides of 
the higher parts of Maughold. 
On 17th February 1887 several Wheatears were noted 
at the Chickens Rock lighthouse, and these, with a Ring 
Ouzel obtained on the same day at the Longships, were, 
say the compilers of the B. A. Committee's Report (p. 23), 
the earliest spring migrants registered during the eight 
years of the Association’s inquiry. ‘It is, they add, 
‘noteworthy to find, from the Daily Weather Report, that 
this portion of the British area was the warmest spot in 
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