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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 ruhicola, 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. 17. — 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 Tsche- 
cautschia, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 997. sp. 175. — Le Traquet, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 215. t. 
13. — Ih. 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- 
climatzer, 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. — jdlbin, 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. 4o. 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 fiirzy places, where they sit upon the uppermost sprays. 
