246 PET BIRDS OF BENGAL 



tricts of Midnapore and Bankura which 

 wedge into Chota Nagpur. Finn saw 

 only one bird in the vicinity of Calcutta 

 but perhaps it was an escaped convict. 

 It is plentiful in Orissa. I have heard 

 its melodious notes minojlini^ with the 

 music of the sea at Puri. 



Legge characterises the Large Pied 



Wagtail as ''essentially a water Wagtail 



— rarely found away from water". 



Field J i-^g^yg never noticed it far 



Notes 



away from water-courses, though 



it may not always remain actually by 



the water's edge. Banks of rivers, sides 



of brooks, ponds, tanks or wells are 



where it may be seen. It is neither 



like those birds which always love to 



be within sight of man, nor is it like 



others which reo^ard human beinscs as 



repugnant creatures and betake themselves 



to solitary glens or dense forests, away 



from 'the maddins^ crowd's imoble strife/ 



It is completely at home by the side 



of a thin, meandering stream, rippling 



