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stonechat

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Noun
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stone=chat

CIDE DICTIONARY

stonechatn. [Stone + chat.] [So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.].
     A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola); -- called also chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.  [1913 Webster]
    " The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata)."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

stonechat, n. any small brown bird of the thrush family with black and white markings, esp. Saxicola torquata with a call like stones being knocked together.


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