Category:Stonechat

Stone"chat`, n. Etym: [stone + chat.] Etym: [so called from the Similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two Pebbles.] (zoöl.) (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).