1828 J. Fleming 67 S[axicola] Oenanthe. Fallow-chat.—Plumage above grey; the front, throat, and band above the eyes, white.
1907 J. Watson & B. Winder 39 On some March morning we see the vanishing white form of the fallow-chat.
2005 M. Cocker 347 They [sc. vernacular names for the wheatear] once covered many aspects of its lifestyle, from..the love of open country (‘fallow-chat’, ‘coney-chuck’) or upland scree (‘stone-chucker’) to the distinctive bobbing and bounding behaviour (‘clod-hopper’).