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The specimens in the case were given me by my 

 friend, Mr. Charles Thorpe, the NaturaHst of East 

 Croydon — one who knows a good deal about this 

 particular species, and to whose charge the casing 

 and mounting of these with the Pied Wagtail has 

 been entrusted. 



The Pied Wagtail. 



From my own observations, and from ornitho- 

 logical books, I should say that this is a much more 

 common and widely distributed species than either 

 the Grey, or even the Yellow Wagtail, for I have 

 come across it almost everywhere. It is evidently 

 a resident, though there is a southern movement in 

 winter. 



Mr. E. Booth, in describing the cases in the Dyke 

 Road Museum, Brighton, wrote thus : — "A few of 

 these birds remain with us during the winter, though 

 by far the greater number are only summer visitors 

 to the British Islands. All through March and the 

 greater [part of April they may be observed on fine 

 still mornings landing on the south coast by thousands; 

 they never appear to be in the slightest degree 

 fatigued or exhausted by their passage, as after 

 alighting for a few minutes at some brackish pool, 

 or on newly- ploughed land, they invariably continue 

 their journey direct to the quarters they intend to 

 take up for the summer. Although hundreds might 

 have been observed within a mile or two of the 

 shore during the early morning, it is seldom that 



