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2 had 7, and 1 had 8, thus disproving Yarrell's 

 statement (since corrected in the 4th edition), that 

 the female Waxwing "has never more than five." 

 Macgillivray was nearer the mark when he stated 

 that the greatest number is seven. 



Sir Oswald Mosley, of Rolleston Hall, near 

 Burton on Trent, has recorded in the Zoologist, 

 under date June 13, 1868, having watched a pair 

 of these birds with their young ones for upwards of 

 a week in the grounds near the house. One of the 

 young birds was caught, and both the parents came 

 to it. The nest was built in a Douglas's pine, about 

 twenty yards above the ground, and consisted of 

 wool intermixed with fibres of grass and bits of fir. 



John WoUey's account of the discovery of nests 

 and eggs of the Waxwing in Russian Lapland, as 

 narrated by Prof. Newton {Ihis, 1861, pp. 192-06), 

 is one of the most interesting stories of bird-nesting 

 on record. 



Fam. MOTACILLIDiE. 



PIED WAGTAIL. Motacilla luguhris, Temm. PL 10. 

 Length, 7"3 in. ; wing, 3-5 in, ; tarsus, 0'9 in. 



Resident, migrating southwards in autumn. 

 Flocks of 70, 150, 200, and 300 have been ob- 

 served in Scotland and in Yorkshire. See Fourth 

 Report on Migration, 1882, pp. 67-68. Its arrival 

 from the Continent on the shores of Sussex about 

 the middle of March was carefully observed by 

 the late A. E, Knox, and described by him in 



