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stonechat (medicine)


stonechat
<ornithology> A small, active, and very common European singing bird (Pratincola rubicola).

Synonym: chickstone, stonechacker, stonechatter, stoneclink, stonesmith.

The wheatear.

The blue titmouse.

The name is sometimes applied to various species of Saxicola, Pratincola, and allied genera; as, the pied stonechat of India (Saxicola picata).

Origin: So called from the similarity of its alarm note to the clicking together of two pebbles.

Source: Websters Dictionary


Galicia (sh)




Polish Galicja Russian Galytsiya

Historical region, eastern Europe.

It included the northern slopes of the Carpathian Mountains and the valleys of the upper Vistula, Dniester, Bug, and Seret rivers. In 1199 eastern Galicia, situated near the principalities of Kiev and Volhynia, was taken by Prince Roman of Volhynia, who united Volhynia and Galicia. In 1349 the Polish king Casimir III annexed Galicia. When Poland was partitioned, beginning in 1772, the territory passed to Austria. Restored to Poland after World War I, eastern Galicia was taken by the Soviet Union in World War II and united to the Ukrainian S.S.R. After the war, eastern Galicia remained a part of the U.S.S.R. (after 1991, part of Ukraine), and western Galicia was attached to Poland.