STONECHAT. 
STONECHATTER. STONECLINK. STONE SMITH. 
MOOR TITLING. BLACK CAP. 
Sylvia rubicola, PENNANT. 
Motacilla Tschecautschia, GMELIN. 
ee rubicola, Monracu. Berwick. 
Sazicola rubicola, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Gnanthe nostra tertia, Ray. WILLUGHBY. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. fiubicola. Rubus—A bramble. 
Colo—To inhabit. 
TuIs species is extensively distributed, being found through- 
out Europe in Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and 
Italy, as also, it 1s said, in some parts of Russia. In Asia 
it has been noticed in different parts of Hindostan, and in 
Asia Minor, as also, according to M. Temminck, in Japan. 
In Africa Le Vaillant and Dr. Smith obtained specimens at 
the Cape of Good Hope. 
In England, though nowhere abundant, it is not uncommon 
in suitable localities in all parts of the island, Yorkshire, 
Dorsetshire, Devonshire, Cornwall, Suffolk, Norfolk, Northum- 
berland, and other counties; in Ireland also, Scotland so far 
north as Sutherlandshire, and in the Hebrides. In the 
Orkneys it makes its appearance but rarely; one was shot 
near JGrkwall in 1847. | 
It frequents uncultivated places, the sides of cliffs by the 
sea, open moors and heaths, warrens and chases, commons and 
downs, at least those parts. of such where low brushwood, the 
wild broom, and the gorse, with its golden blossoms, so 
deservedly the admiration of Linnzeus when in this country 
he for the first time saw it, the bramble, the juniper, and 
the sloe, afford it alike a shelter and a home. Such lonely 
spots it enlivens with its gay and handsome appearance, its 
