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September 8 ; on that very day I saw one at Cobham, 

 the only one I ever saw there." 



The Grey Wagtail is, according to Mr. D. T. Button, 

 " common all the winter, from November to March, in the 

 watercress-beds at Springhead, near Gravesend ; I have 

 obtained many fine examples from there." On August 6, 

 1877, Mr. H. Lamb met with this species on the cricket 

 ground at Yalding ; and in the winter of 1878, in Novem- 

 ber and December, he again found it in the Loose Valley, 

 near Maidstone. In the winter of 1878-79, specimens 

 were obtained in Clare Park, East Mailing, Kent. A 

 male in the Maidstone Museum was obtained at Holling- 

 bourne in January, 1881. Several were seen by Mr. H. 

 Elgar between Aylesford and Snodland on November 15, 

 1893, and one at Aylesford on September 22, 1894. 



Dr. A. G. Butler, in his British Birds' Eggs, 1886, 

 says : " The fact of its occurrence in Kent, though already 

 recorded, is confirmed by a nest which I obtained at 

 Kemsley, in Kent, on May 16, 1885 ; it was built on the 

 ground behind a clod of earth in a fallow field, and was 

 discovered by a boy whilst ploughing ; this boy took me 

 to the spot, and the bird flew off the nest as we ap- 

 proached. The nest is formed of root fibre mixed with 

 coarse grasses, cow- and horse-hair, and is lined with 

 black horse-hair, white cow-hair and wool ; it originally 

 contained four eggs of the ordinary type, but one was 

 broken by the fall of a piece of earth into the nest as 

 it was being removed ; they are slightly larger than the 

 eggs of the Pied Wagtail, and are rather closely mottled 

 with pale yellowish-brown, which gives them a stone-grey 

 tint." 



On July 24, 1906, Mr. Bartlett found many Grey Wag- 

 tails in the large sewers and Royal Military Canal 

 between Dymchurch and New Romney 



