THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 27 



Fumihj. — IMOTACILLID.E. 



WHITE WAGTAIL.— J/o/r/r/7/^/ a\hu, Liiui. 

 A spKiNG visitant to North and South Devon, 

 identified in April and i\Iay by such competent 

 observers as Mr. liickards, who shot specimens in 

 April 1871, at Northam Burrows, and Mr. Gatcombe, 

 who occasionally met with stragglers in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Plymouth. The Rev. Murray A . Mathew 

 informed Mr. A. G. More that he considered the 

 White Wagtail a regular spring visitor to the coast 

 of North Devon, and that a pair nested near 

 llfracombe, in June 1860, the nest being placed in 

 a wall bordering on a stream ; a situation which the 

 Editor has found to be frequently adopted by this 

 Wagtail, though he has also seen nests in outhouses, 

 and in the roots of trees. 



PIED WAGTAIL.— J/oA^r/7/^/ hujahrh, Temm. 



A SPRING and autumn visitant, many breeding with 

 us, and a considerable number wintering in Devon. 

 The late Mr. Stevenson once witnessed the Spring 

 arrival of Pied Wagtails on the Den at Teignmouth ; 

 writing, '' On the morning of the 20tli of March, a 

 most undoubted arrival of migratory specimens 

 appeared, the slopes in front of the sea being quite 

 covered with them. So unusual was their appear- 

 ance in such quantitiey, arid so tame did they appear 

 that every one was stopping to look at them, but by 

 the next day this flight had passed on, and only a 

 few pairs, as usual, remained by the sea," (Zool. 



