YELLOW WAGTAIL 111 



GEEY-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



MotaciUa viridis (Gmelin). S.N., I, p. 96'2 (1788). 



Mr. G. Dowker, iu his Birds of East Kent, states that 

 " Mr. W. Oxen den Hammond writes to me, May 1, 1889, 

 that the Grey-headed Wagtail has just been killed 

 between Deal and Dover, by striking itself against the 

 telegraph wires." 



Under the name of Grey-headed Wagtails {MotaciUa 

 horealis), a pair, with their nest, were taken by Mr. 

 Bristow, of St. Leonards-on-Sea, from the marsh between 

 Rye and Lydd on June 20, 1906, probably the first 

 recorded instance of the breeding of this bird in Great 

 Britain {Bulletin of the B.O.C., vol. xix., p. 23, 1906). 



YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



MotaciUa rail (Bonaparte). Comp. List B. Eur. 

 and N. Am., p. 18 (1838). 



Yellow Water Wagtail, Boys, 1792 ; 

 Yellow Dishwasher. 



The Yellow Wagtail, or, more properly speaking. Bay's 

 Wagtail, to distinguish it from the other more or less 

 yellow species, is one of our most familiar birds, next to 

 the Pied Wagtail. 



This species is not confined to the sea-coast, but finds 

 its way far inland to breed, and is thoroughly distributed 

 over the whole of Kent during the summer, especially 

 near large lakes, ponds and streams. It is very pretty to 

 see a pair of these canary-coloured birds running about 

 and feeding on the road, and they may be seen acting the 

 Flycatcher, by darting up in the air for a fly. Among 



