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THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla rail ( Bonap.). 



All the evidence tends to show that the great majority o£ 

 Yellow AYac^tails arrived on the south-east coast of England. 

 The few stragglers which were recorded during the last 

 week of March and the first week of April were all observed 

 in Kent and Essex, the only exceptions being one in 

 Hants on the 30th of March and one in Somerset on the 

 9th of April. 



After the 13th of April the numbers began to increase. The 

 first arrival was recorded from Yorkshire on that date, from 

 Camliridge and Suffolk on the 14th, from Norfolk, Surrey 

 and Berks on the 15th, from Derby and Staffordshire on 

 the IGth and from Cheshire on the 17th. There seems to 

 have been an influx on April the 18th, for the species was 

 observed at the Hanois light, Channel Islands, while a slight 

 increase was noted in Surrey, many were seen in Glamorgan, 

 and other birds had pushed on into Shropshire and Lan- 

 cashire. On the 20th there seems to have been a slight 

 increase in the south-east and an increase of males only was 

 noted in Yorkshire. 



Another immigration probal)ly took place on the 22nd on 

 the south-east coast, as an increase of males was noted in 

 Cambridge and Bedford. Larger numljers were noted in 

 Norfolk on the 2Gth, and on the 27th a further increase was 

 recorded on the Kentish coast, whence the birds apparently 

 spread westward and northward, as they were recorded in 

 Hants, Surrey and Cambridge on the 28th and in Devc^n 

 and Worcester on the 29th. 



On May the 1st this species was recorded from the Hants 



