MOTACILLA FHLDEGGI. M. FLAVA. 361 



[§ 1867. ^?>/^^'.— Thetford Warren, Suffolk, June 1852. 



From three nests found by my brother Echvard — one on the 12th, Avith five 

 eggs, the other two, with five and three eggs respectively, on the 17th of the 

 month — in a locality which I have elsewhere described (Yarreil, British Biids, 

 ed. 4, i. p. 565, note) : — " On the left bank of the Little Ouse, below Thetford, 

 several pairs of this bird used to choose for their breeding-quarters some 

 heathery moiuids bordering a stretch of wet meadows ; and there associated, 

 so as to form, as it were, a little colony, three, four, or more nests might be 

 found within the compass of a few yards. This was no doubt originally owing 

 to the spot affording greater security from floods than any other near, and to 

 it would seem to have resorted the whole population of Yellow AVagtails 

 frequenting a considerable extent of the valley of the river. The mounds are 

 of blown sand, based on a terrace of gravel, which latter having been largely 

 excavated within the last ten years [written in 1874], has produced many fiint 

 implements of a very ancient type. It is perhaps not too much to suppose that 

 the colony may have first established itself in days not long after the I'alajolithic 

 period."] 



[§ 1868. aS/^.— Sparham, Norfolk, 12 May, 1875. From 

 Mr. Norgate. 



Taken by Mr. Norgate.] 



[§ 1869. /S'/c2'.— Sparham, 21 May, 1876. From Mr. Norgate, 



1878.] 



MOTACILLA FELDEGGI, Michahelles. 



[§ 1870. Owe.— Greece, 1 June, 1858. From Dr. Kriiper, 

 through Herr Seidensacher. 



Received under the name of MotaciUa melanocephala. I cannot find any 

 other record of Dr. Kriiper's experience of this form in Greece or the Levant 

 than the extracts from his manuscript printed in 1875 by Dr. Hartlaub 

 (Griechische Jahreszeiten. iii. p. 225), nor can I guarantee the correctness of 

 the specific title above used.] 



MOTACILLA FLAVA, Liuu^us. 



BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



§ 1871. Three.— Ymm Mr. Hoy, through Mr. James H. Tuke, 

 1846. 



