WHINCHAT.
OXOCHDEB \ l ( EITHIN, OP THE A NCIENT BRITISH.
GKAS6CHAT. FURZECHAT. HAYCHAT.
Sylvia rubetia, PENNANT.
Motacilia rubelra, MONTAGU. BEWICK.
Sax kola rubelra, F LEUNG. S ELB Y .
Rubelra major, BRISSON.
(Knanthe secwtda, « RAY.
Sylvia. Sylra—A wood. Rubelra, Rubdum—A place where
brambles or bushes grow.
T H E R E is something in t he 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, aud 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 'Mediterranean. 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 Gloucestershire; in Cornwall it is more rare as you advance
westwards, near Falmouth, for instance, but ouc 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 from East
Lothian even to Sutherlandshire, Rosshire, Morayshire, Caitlmesshire,
and Aberdeenshire, and in Ireland is more or less plentiful throughout
the island. Also in Guernsey and Sark.