| 单词 | stonechat |
| 例句 | The stonechat is “the very acme of alertness.” Review: ‘The Moth Snowstorm,’ and Other Natural Bliss-Outs 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Ornithologist Barbara Hall from the University of Groningen and her colleagues, for example, studied European stonechats, small songbirds that they caught and then bred in captivity. Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19? 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z There were stonechats and whinchats then as now. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The stonechat or stone-checker is a nice bird as to looks, but possesses but little song. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z On the slope here the furze is flecked with golden spots, and black-headed stonechats perch on ant-hills or stray flints, taking no heed of a quiet wanderer. The Hills and the Vale It’s that big cleft where we found the stonechats. Will of the Mill A stonechat he was sure it must be, and he wandered on till he came to a great silver fir, and thought that he spied a pigeon's nest among the multitudinous branches. The Lake But the rock stood still, and a stonechat went and perched on it. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Goatsucker, linnet, stonechat,' said the Rector, fingering them. Robert Elsmere Miriam broke off some lotus-buds and threw them at the stonechat, which flew away, but kept its beak still pointing towards the rushes. Historical Miniatures It is summer, and the wind-birds top the furze; the bright stonechat, velvet-black and red and white, sits on the highest spray of the gorse, as if he were painted there. Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies The brightest bird on the Downs was then the stonechat. The Life of the Fields To the future must belong the task of deciphering some pages of the immense lexicon; for today I will content myself with remembering the Saxicola, or stonechat. The Life of the fly; with which are interspersed some chapters of autobiography Yonder, where the wheat can climb no higher up the slope, are the purple heath-bells, thyme and flitting stonechats. The Life of the Fields |
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