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 Wag-tail. 
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 (^Saxicola CEnanthe, Bechstein.) 
Saxicola (Enanthe, Bechst, Naturg. Dent. — Sylvia Qiinanthe, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 
529. 79. — Motacilla CEnanthe, Lmn. Syst. 1. p. 332. 15. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 
966. sp. 15. — Betz. Linn. Fauna Suec. p. 259. sp. 242. — Raii, Syn. p. 75. A. 1. 
— Will. p. 168. t. 41. — Vittaflora, Bi-iss. 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. — Graiiriickiger, Steinschmatzer, Meyer, Tasschenb. Dent. 1. 
p. 251. B. — Wheatear, Fallow Smich, 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. — Lewin's Br. Birds, 3. t. 110. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 
— Will. (Angl.) p. 133. t. 41. — Bull. 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 hill 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, hut 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 hack 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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