STONECHAT 17 
In the Kelvingrove Museum at Glasgow is a good male 
specimen, labelled as from Point of Ayr(e), Isle of Man, 
and presented by Mr. W. J. Dawson. By the courtesy of 
the curators I learn that this bird was received on 3rd May 
in the same year. 
On the Calf of Man, in 1901, Mr. Graves and I observed 
two, one in the ‘Glen’ and one near our cottage on 
the northern side of the islet. (See Zool., 1901, p. 469.) 
Mr. Kermode states that he has heard of it as seen by 
several persons, but the above appears up to the present to 
be the only definite records. 
The Whinchat is a summer migrant, generally distributed 
through the three kingdoms, but absent in many Scottish 
districts, and in Ireland rarer and more local than in 
England. (In the south it is regarded by Mr. Ussher as a 
straggler only.) It breeds, however, locally over Ulster, 
and in north-western England is in some districts common. 
Mr. Aplin says it is quite scarce in Lleyn. In Kirkeud- 
brightshire it also occurs, but locally and not commonly. 
In the outlying Scottish islands it is rare or absent. 
PRATINCOLA RUBICOLA (Linn.). 
STONECHAT. 
BuackcaP, Nickcuick, STONECHATTER. Manx, *Bojid}-y-chonnee 
(Kermode) = point of the gorse ; *Bord (? Bird)} -y-conney or 
chonnee ; Claghyn-cloie; Kione-doo-ny-eeigynyn (M.S. D.) 
=black head of the gorse; Kione dhoo, Kione dhoo y 
Jiggyrt (J. R. Moore). (Cf. Irish, Cazpin aiteann.) 
This pleasant little bird is in Man, as in Ireland, very 
common. The isle abounds in the kind of ground suited 
1 What the first word of these names should be is perhaps somewhat uncertain. 
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