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stonechat|ˈstəʊntʃæt|
[f. stone n. + chat n.2, ‘from the similarity between its alarm note and the striking together of two pebbles’ (Swainson).]
A small bird, Pratincola (or Saxicola) rubicola, inhabiting heaths, commons, etc. in Britain and various parts of Europe. (Also called stonechat warbler.) Also improperly applied to several allied species, as the whinchat, P. rubetra, and the wheatear, S. œnanthe. Also, with defining word, applied to other species.
1783Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 448 Stone-Chat..Motacilla rubicola. 1797T. Bewick Brit. Birds I. 233 The Stonechat, Stone-smit[c]h, Moor Titling. 1817Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. 709 Stone-chat Warbler. (Sylvia Rubicola.) 1839Macgillivray Brit. Birds II. 279 Fruticicola Rubicola. The Black-headed Bushchat. Stonechat. Stonesmich. Stonechatter. 1865A. L. Adams in Pop. Science Rev. IV. 326 A good many stone-chats spend the winter in Britain. 1872J. H. Gurney Andersson's Birds Damara Land 102 Pratincola torquata (Linn.) South-African Stone⁓chat. 1873E. Balfour Cycl. India (ed. 2) V. 573/2 The pied stone-chat (Saxicola picata) may be seen hopping about in the Dekhan.
Also called stone-chacker, -chatter, -chatterer, † -check (steinchek). Also stone-clink; stone-smatch, -smitch, etc.
1853F. O. Morris Brit. Birds III. 170 Wheatear. Fallow⁓chat. White-tail. *Stone-chacker.
1544Turner Avium Præcip. I 1 b, Qualis est auicula Anglis *stonchattera, aut mortettera dicta. 1783Latham Gen. Synopsis Birds II. i. 450, I have ever thought it exactly imitating the clicking of two stones together, one being held in each hand. If others have thought the same, it will easily account for the reason of its being called the Stone-Chatter. 1837M. Donovan Dom. Econ. II. 145 The Stonechatter, although an insignificant little bird, is prized by lovers of curious eating.
1823A. Small Rom. Antiq. Fife 235 The little light blue bird called the *Stone-chatterer, from its delighting to be amongst, and building its nest under stones.
1668Charleton Onomast. 88 Cæruleo, the Clot-bird, Smatch, or *Stone-Check.
1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 11 Stonechat..*Stone clink; Chickstone. |