Dykehopper

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wheatear \Wheat"ear`\, n. (Zool.)
     A small European singing bird ({Saxicola [oe]nanthe}). The
     male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings
     and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the
     tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each
     side. Called also {checkbird}, {chickell}, {dykehopper},


     {fallow chat}, {fallow finch}, {stonechat}, and {whitetail}.
     [1913 Webster]