28 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



1860. p. 6790). Their movemenfcs in autumn, when 

 the numbers of old birds are recruited by the young 

 broods, are more extended but quite as noteworthy. 

 One fine September evening, I counted more than a 

 hundred Pied Wagtails clustering together on the 

 telegraph wires near Broadclyst, like a swarm of 

 migrating Swallows. As I watched them, they all 

 suddenly took wing and flew out of siglit. 



GREY WAGTAIL.— Mofr/r/^/rt melanope. Pall. 



A SUMMER migrant and partial resident, nesting 

 somewhat sparingly among rocks and in the crevices 

 of walls, bleeding chiefly on the higher grounds 

 early in the year. Mr. Mitchell considers it a scarce 

 bird on Dartmoor. Mr. J. R, Earle found an e^g of 

 the Cuckoo in the nest of a Grey Wagtail built in 

 the stone-work of an old bridge which crosses the 

 river Otter at Honiton, together with two eggs of 

 the Wagtail. 



BLUE-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL.— 



Motacilla Jiava, liiiiu. 



A RARE spring and autumn visitant to South Devon, 

 not yet reported from our North coast. Mr. 

 Gatcombe obtained a pair of these Wagtails in a 

 marsh near Plymoutli, May 1st, 1850, and met with 

 the species again in the autumn of 1874, Avlien he 

 observed a pair of adults in a meadow close to the 

 town, on the 29th, and 31st, of August. He remarked 

 that when disturbed, these Wagtails generally flew 

 off in a different direction from the Yellow Wagtails. 



