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WHEATEAR. 
FALLOW-CHAT. WHITE-TAIL. 
STONE-CHACKER. CHACK-BIRD. CLOD-HOPPER. 
Sylvia enanthe, PENNANT. LATHAM. 
Motacilla enanthe, Linnzus. Montacu. GMELIN. 
ss eo WILLUGHBY. Ray. 
Sazicola enanthe, FLEMING, SELBY. BECHSTEIN. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. (Enanthe—Some species of bird, imagined 
to be the Wheatear. 
Mosr plentiful in the more temperate parts of Hurope, the 
Wheatear is found more or less throughout the Continent, 
from the shores of the Mediterranean to those of the Frozen 
Sea. In Holland they are very abundant; they are also found 
in Dalmatia and Greece, Denmark, Sweden, and the Ferroe 
Islands, Norway, Lapland, and Iceland. In Asia they have 
been observed, in Asia Minor. In Arctic America one, but 
only one, was seen by Captain James Ross, R.N., in Felix 
Harbour, on the 2nd. of May, 1880, but it was killed by 
cold or hunger the same night. 
The Wheatear is found in greater or less plenty from the 
Land’s End to Cape Wrath. In Yorkshire I continue to 
notice a few of these birds near the ‘Langton Wold’ cricket- 
ground, a spot which, for the beauty of its panoramic view 
ean hardly be equalled, certainly not exceeded, by any other 
cricket-ground in England; in the exquisite purity of the air 
to be there enjoyed it also stands pre-eminent, as well as in 
the excellence of the ground itself for the noble pastime. 
Others are to be seen along the low cliffs between Bridlington 
Quay and the solitary house of Auburn, the only relic of 
the village of that name; not, I suppose, Goldsmith’s ‘love- 
liest village of the plain,’ for the encroaching ocean has long 
since washed away the very foundations of it, and the relics 
