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    rubetra

    Gonçalo, This is from The Key to Scientific Names (free on the BOW website): ● Albin’s 1731, name “Rubetra” for the Whinchat. Many early authors, including Linnaeus, confused the Whinchat and the Western Stonechat, using rubetra as a translation of Aristotle’s βατις batis a grub-eating bird...
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