WHINCHAT. 
GRASSCHAT. FURZECHAT. 
Sylvia rubetra, PENNANT. 
Motacilla rubetra, Montracu. BEWICK. 
Saxicola rubetra, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Rubetra major, BRISSON. 
CEnanthe secunda, Ray, 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Rubetra. Rubetum—A piace where 
brambles or bushes grow. 
TuERE is something in the appearance of this bird, which, 
accustomed as one may have been to its constant recurrence 
summer after summer, still attracts the eye, as if the object 
were one which presented some novelty of form, or attractive 
peculiarity hitherto not observed, which could not but be 
regarded with new attention. 
It is found in Europe—in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and 
the temperate parts of Russia, and throughout the whole of 
the southern parts of the continent—France, Germany, Greece, 
Switzerland, Spain, and Italy, to the shores of the Mediter- 
ranean. It occurs also in Asia Minor. 
In Yorkshire, this is one of the most common of the 
summer visitants, as also in various other counties—Suffolk, 
Norfolk, Dorset, Devon, Northumberland, Wilts., Hants., 
Somerset, Middlesex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Gloucester- 
shire; in Cornwall, it is more rare as you advance westwards, 
but one has been killed at Scilly, as recorded by Edward 
Hearle Rodd, Esq., in the ‘Zoologist,’ page 3276: it also 
occurs in Wales. In Scotland it travels even to Sutherland- 
shire, Rosshire, Morayshire, and Aberdeenshire; and in Ireland 
is more or less plentiful throughout the island. 
It occasionally visits Orkney in the summer, and has been 
observed once or twice in Sanday, but is not known to breed 
there. 
