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Stonechat   Listen
noun
Stonechat  n.  (Zool.)
(a)
A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.
(b)
The wheatear.
(c)
The blue titmouse. Note: The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata).






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"Stonechat" Quotes from Famous Books



... delight: there is nought to displease her, nor lacks she aught that she could wish, when 'neath the flowers and leaves it lists her embrace her lover. At the time when folk go hunting with the sparrow-hawk and with the hound, which seeks the lark and the stonechat and tracks the quail and the partridge, it happened that a knight of Thrace, a young and sprightly noble, esteemed for his prowess, had one day gone a-hawking quite close beside this tower; Bertrand was the knight's ...
— Cliges: A Romance • Chretien de Troyes



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