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WHEATEAR , a See also:bird's name, perhaps of doubtful meaning,l though J. See also:- TAYLOR
- TAYLOR, ANN (1782-1866)
- TAYLOR, BAYARD (1825–1878)
- TAYLOR, BROOK (1685–1731)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1787-1865)
- TAYLOR, ISAAC (1829-1901)
- TAYLOR, JEREMY (1613-1667)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (158o-1653)
- TAYLOR, JOHN (1704-1766)
- TAYLOR, JOSEPH (c. 1586-c. 1653)
- TAYLOR, MICHAEL ANGELO (1757–1834)
- TAYLOR, NATHANIEL WILLIAM (1786-1858)
- TAYLOR, PHILIP MEADOWS (1808–1876)
- TAYLOR, ROWLAND (d. 1555)
- TAYLOR, SIR HENRY (1800-1886)
- TAYLOR, THOMAS (1758-1835)
- TAYLOR, TOM (1817-1880)
- TAYLOR, WILLIAM (1765-1836)
- TAYLOR, ZACHARY (1784-1850)
Taylor, the " See also:water poet " (d. x654), in whose writings it seems first to occur, and F. See also:Willughby, explain it (in the words of J. See also:Ray, the latter's translator) as given " because [in] the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of See also:wheat See also:harvest they See also:wax very See also:fat." The wheatear, Saxicola cenanthe, is one of the earliest migrants of its See also:kind to return to its See also:home, often reaching See also:England at the end of See also:February and almost always by the See also:middle of See also:March. The See also:cock bird, with his bluish See also:grey back and See also:light See also:buff See also:breast, set off by See also:black See also:ear-coverts, wings, and See also:part of the tail, is rendered still more conspicuous by his See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white rump as he takes See also:short flights in front of those who disturb him, while his sprightly actions and See also:gay See also:song harmonize so well with his delicately-tinted plumage as to render him a welcome See also:object to all who delight in See also:free and open See also:country. When alarmed both sexes have a See also:sharp monosyllabic See also:note that sounds like chat; and this has not only entered into some of the See also:local names of this See also:species and of its See also:allies, but has caused all to be frequently spoken of as " chats." The See also:nest is constantly placed under ground; the bird takes See also:advantage of the hole of some other See also:animal, or the shelter of a clod in a See also:fallow-See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field or a See also:recess beneath a See also:rock. A large amount of soft material is therein collected, and on them from 5 to 8 See also:pale See also:blue eggs are laid.
The wheatear has a very wide range throughout the Old See also:World, extending in summer far within the See also:Arctic Circle, from See also:Norway to the See also:Lena and Yana valleys, while it winters in See also:Africa beyond the See also:Equator and in See also:India. But it also breeds regularly in See also:Greenland and some parts of See also:North See also:America. Its reaching the former and the eastern See also:coast of the latter, as well as the See also:Bermudas, may possibly be explained by the drifting of individuals from See also:Iceland; but far more interesting is the fact of Its continued seasonal See also:appearance in See also:Alaska without ever showing itself in See also:British See also:Columbia or See also:California, and
r The vulgar supposition of its being an See also:euphemism of an Anglo-Saxon name (cf. See also:Bennett's ed. of White's Nat. Hist. See also:Selborne, p.69, note) must be rejected until See also:evidence that such a name ever existed be adduced. It is true that " whittaile " (cf. Dutch Witstaart and See also:French Culblanc) is given by See also:Cotgrave in 1611; but the older names, according to See also:Turner, in 1544, of " clotburd " (=clod-bird) and smatch ( =chat) do not favour the usual derivation. " Fallow-chat " is another old name still locally in use, as is " coney-chuck."
vulgaris, with a, aecidium fruits, p, peridium, and sp, spermogonia. (After See also:Sachs.)
C, See also:Mass of uredospores (ur) with one teleutospore (t).
sh, Sub-hymenial hyphae. (After De Bary.)
pm p
From See also:Vine's Students' See also:Text-See also:Book of See also:Botany, by permission of See also:Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.
sp, The gonidium.
pm, The promycelium.
d, The sporidia: in B the sporidia have coalesced in pairs at v.
without ever having been observed in See also:Kamchatka, See also:Japan or See also:China, though it is a summer See also:resident in the Tchuktchi See also:peninsula. Hence it would seem as though its See also:annual flights across See also:Bering's Strait must be in connexion with a migratory See also:movement that passes to the north and See also:west of the Stanovoi range of mountains.
Many species more or less allied to the wheatear have been de-scribed. Some eight are included in the See also:European See also:fauna; but the See also:majority are inhabitants of Africa. Several of them are birds of the See also:desert; and here it may be remarked that, while most of these exhibit the See also:sand-coloured tints so commonly found in animals of like See also:habitat, a few assume a black plumage, which, as explained by H. B. Tristram, is equally protective, since it assimilates them to the deep shadows See also:cast by projecting stones and other inequalities of the See also:surface.
Amongst genera closely allied to Saxicola are Pratincola, which comprises among others two well-known British birds, the stonechat and whinchat, P. rubicola and P. rubetra, the latter a summer-migrant, while the former is resident as a species, and the black See also:head, ruddy breast, and white See also:collar and wing-spot of the cock render him a conspicuous object on almost every See also:furze-grown See also:common or See also:heath in the British Islands, as he sits on a projecting twig or flits from See also:bush to bush. This bird has a wide range in See also:Europe, and several other species, more or less resembling it, inhabit See also:South Africa, See also:Madagascar, See also:Reunion and See also:Asia, from some of the islands of the See also:Indian See also:Archipelago to Japan. The whinchat, on the other See also:hand, much more affects enclosed lands, and with a wide range has no very near ally. The wheatear and its allies belong to the sub-See also:family Turdinae of the thrushes (q.v.). (A.
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