The Annals 



of 



Scottish Natural History 



NO. 30] 1899 [APRIL 



A LIST OF THE BIRDS OF BERWICK-ON-TWEED, 

 WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO "THE BIRDS 

 OF BERWICKSHIRE," AND NOTICES OF THE 

 OCCURRENCE OF SOME OF THE RARER 

 SPECIES IN THE ADJOINING DISTRICTS. 



By GEORGE BOLAM, F.Z.S., etc. 

 (Continued from "Annals" 1897, /. 88.) 



WHITE WAGTAIL, Motadlla alba, Linnaeus. A difficult species 

 to determine from descriptions merely, and is frequently confounded 

 with its near relative M. lugubris, which renders some of the records 

 of its having been seen very doubtful. 



It has not been observed within our Bounds, though I met 

 with a single example, on the turnpike side, near Lowlynn, on i2th 

 April 1882. Dr. Charles Stuart thinks he has seen it by the 

 side of the Tweed, near the Union Bridge ; and the late Dr. Hardy 

 believed he had once identified it near Old Cambus. About Dunbar, 

 and on the East Lothian coast, it has been frequently observed as 

 a spring migrant, and specimens have been obtained there. 



PIED WAGTAIL, Motadlla lugubris, Temminck. A common, 

 and well-known species, the " Water Wagtail " of the district. To 

 a limited extent resident throughout the year, breeding in our old 

 walls, and on the sea banks, but the greater number move south- 

 wards in autumn. The beach, and rubbish-heaps, at the back of 

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