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Although the two species may be found in compan\' in England 



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in summer and in southern France during the winter months, the white 



wagtail breeds far north and has a more 

 easterly range than its pied cousin, ranging 

 in summer to Greenland, Iceland, and the 

 Fiiroes in the north, and as far as the Yenesei 

 valley to the eastward. As is frequently the 

 case in similar instances, its winter southern 

 range is likewise more extensive, embracing 

 as it d©es Senegambia and a large part of 

 north-eastern Africa, as well as India and 

 Burma. 



Although far less common and less widely 

 distributed than the pied species, with which 

 it is no doubt often confounded, and with 

 which it will interbreed, the white wagtail is 

 a regular spring- visitor to England, where it 

 has occasionally nested, and has also been 

 observed in many parts of Scotland, includ- 

 ing the southern Shetlands in 1901 ; but 

 in Ireland it appears to have been chiefly 

 recognised in spring in or near the coast of 



Mayo, especially Killala Ba\', and then only occasionally. 



As mentioned above, the pied wagtail is perhaps only a western 



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