IIG CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



GREY WAGTAIL.— (Summer.) 



Case 132. 



It is but seldom, in the south, that this bird is met 

 with in the summer plumage ; its breeding quarters 

 being for the most part in the northern counties, and 

 in the Highlands of Scotland. 



When living in Perthshire, I used generally to 

 notice their arrival about the middle of April. 

 Though they usually frequent the stony banks of 

 rivers and rocky bums, I have noticed a few that bred 

 in the neighbourhood, regularly visiting the dust-heaps 

 and open drains that are to be met with in the centre 

 of ^ome of the Highland towns. 



The sketch from which the case is copied was taken 

 from the bridge at Innerwick, in Glenlyon, in Perth- 

 shire, where a pair of these birds nested annually, in 

 a small hole in the masonry from which a stone had 

 been dislodged. 



The specimens, together with their nest and eggs, 

 were obtained at the identical spot, in May, 1867. 



Case 133. 



