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What is a whinchat?

What is a whinchat? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small Old World songbird, Saxicola rubetra, that feeds on insects.
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Mr Harvie Brown saw it at Aultbea in 1884, more abundantly than the whinchat.
The same is true of the whinchat, and one would scarcely expect to find this bird attacking Buntings as it sometimes does.
It is not so tender as the whinchat, some few of them occasionally stopping in this country all the winter.
The whinchat may be distinguished at a considerable distance by the white streak over the eye.
The furze-chat, mentioned by C. Brown, is the Saxicola rubetra, commonly also called the whinchat.
Incidentally we may remark that the whinchat is also a frequenter of the gorse coverts and the moorlands.

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