Crossword-Solution: SAXICOLA 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

Blyth also informs me that the sexes of the stonechat, Saxicola rubicola, are distinguishable at a very early age.

Who named them? What are all my different acquaintances in the woods and meadows called? What does Saxicola mean?' Years passed and Latin taught me that Saxicola means an inhabitant of the rocks.

Coryphistera resembles the lark and pipit in its habits; Cinclodes, the wagtail; Geobates a Saxicola; Limnornis lives in reed beds growing in the water; Henicornis in reed beds growing out of the water; and many other ground species exist concealed in the grass on dry plains; Homorus seeks its food by digging in the loose soil and dead leaves about the roots of trees; while Geo-sitta, Furnarius, and Upercerthia obtain a livelihood chiefly by probing in the soil.

Saw and shot another Myophonus, a Saxicola and an Alcedo, the common one of India; this species has strengthening splints, as it were on both mandibles: and the feet, etc.

Four European birds also have occurred in Bermuda;--the wheatear (_Saxicola oenanthe_), which visits Iceland and Lapland and sometimes the northern United States; the skylark (_Alauda arvensis_), but this was probably an imported bird or an escape from some ship; the land-rail (_Crex pratensis_), which also wanders to Greenland and the United States; and the common snipe (_Scolopax gallinago_), which occurs not unfrequently in Greenland but has not yet been noticed in North America.