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Definition of Stonechats
1. stonechat [n] - See also: stonechat
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonechats
Literary usage of Stonechats
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"53. has the bill of the stonechats, but differs in its long legs. Sylvia Saxicola
Obscura, King, Zool. Jour. Black-brown ; wings short and rounded ..."
2. A History of British Birds by William YARRELL, Howard Saunders, Alfred Newton (1874)
"As already mentioned, the stonechats of South Africa and of Southern and Eastern
Asia which must resemble our own, have been separated from it and from each ..."
3. Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1899)
"Twenty years ago I used to search in vain for the nest of a pair of handsome
stonechats which frequented, during the spring and part of the summer, ..."
4. Transactions by Thomas Southwell, Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society (1879)
"222), has noticed that the numbers of stonechats are augmented in the autumn.
... The Irish stonechats will cross to England, and along with numbers of our ..."
5. The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne: In the County of Southampton by Gilbert White, Edward Turner Bennett, James Edmund Harting (1891)
"... which the whinchat has been found here in winter, although the stonechat
occasionally passes that season with us. It is possible that female stonechats ..."
6. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"... stonechats. Subfamily Character.—Bill depressed at the base : gape with
diverging bristles. Feet lengthened. Tail rather short. Head large. ..."
7. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1843)
"They arrive here about the middle of April, but, unlike the stonechats, always,
... as well as the stonechats, remain here during the winter, ..."
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