352 Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail captured at Stoke Nayland, 



cause or other, beyond their usual period of migration, had 

 become torpid, and perished. [VIII. 513.] 

 Vicarage House, Oswestry, May 20. 1836. 



Art. V. A Notice of the Fact of the Capture of an Individual of 

 the Grey-headed Yellotv Wagtail (Motacilla neglecta Gould), 

 at Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. By J. D. Hoy, Esq. 



On May 2. 1836, I shot a fine adult male of the grey- 

 headed yellow wagtail (Motacilla neglecta Gould) in this 

 parish : it was following the plough, in company with several 

 of the pied species; in which situation, at this season, the 

 yellow spring wagtail, common to this country, is often met 

 with. Mr. H. Doubleday of Epping, I believe, has in his 

 possession a specimen of the ikfotacilla neglecta, shot by him- 

 self at Walton, on the coast of Essex, in the autumn [on 

 Oct. 3. 1834: see in VIII. 617.]: hut, after the autumnal 

 moult, it so much resembles our common yellow wagtail, that 

 they are not easily distinguished; but the bird now occurring 

 in its full nuptial garb, will place it on our list of occasional 

 visitants beyond a doubt. I think that it is highly probable 

 that it may often be found on our south-eastern coasts, during 

 the time of its vernal migration, and also in autumn ; more 

 particularly should strong easterly gales prevail about the 

 former time, as has been the case this season. It would cer- 

 tainly, in most instances, pass unnoticed, from its similarity to 

 our common yellow wagtail. Its notes, also, are very similar. 



It is somewhat strange, that the ikfotacilla flava of British 

 authors does not appear to be known to Continental writers 

 on natural history ; while it seems pretty evident the bird must 

 visit us from southern climates. :.^j jgsob JBffW ^ 



Stoke Nayland, Suffolk, May 12. 1836. ;o zmsUdfiddi sib 



t nn^oo erii lo 9nnd jisa sdi 



[At a meeting of the Wernerian Society, Edinburgh, on 

 Jan. 9. 1836, Sir Patrick Walker read a notice regarding the 

 occurrence of -Motacilla neglecta Gould, on the banks of the 

 Water of Leith. (Magazine of Zoology and Botany, p. 111.) 

 There is added in a note, in the same page, it is not stated 

 whom by, a remark in which is the statement that " this is the 

 second time that M. neglecta has been recorded occurring near 

 Edinburgh."] 



