36 GREY WAGTAIL. BLUE-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA MELANOPE— Grey Wagtail. 



\Motacilla sidpJmrea — Yarrell^^ 



This Wagtail occurs locally about the more secluded streams 

 of the northern district of the county, but is nowhere plentiful. 



The Grey Wagtail, Mr. W. C. Blake states, remains all the year 

 round in the neighbourhood of Ross. They bred in 1884 in the 

 brook which empties itself into the Wye just above the town, and 

 he saw the young fledglings with the old birds. Mr. Blake thinks 

 this species more partial to polluted brooks and foul ponds than to 

 clear streams. 



MOTACILLA FLAVA— Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. 



This rare species occurs regularly every season at Belmont, 

 near Hereford, and from the length of its stay it is almost sure to 

 breed there, although the actual fact of its doing so, yet remains to 

 be proved. Mr. R. M. Lingwood says of this bird (Woolhope 

 Transactions, i86t) — "Seen at Lyston, November, 1840, but not 

 handled, and therefore doubtful." 



[MoTACiLLA viRiDis — Grey-headed Yellow Wagtail.] 

 A very doubtful English bird. 



MOTACILLA RAII— Yellow Wagtail. 



A regular summer visitant throughout the county, but more 

 shy in its habits than the Pied Wagtail ; it is to be found 

 about cultivated fields, wheat and fallow lands, where it usually 

 builds on the ground, beneath herbage. 



