no 



THE PIED WAGTAIL. 



which a pair chose for their nest. Writing from Chelten- 

 ham, on the 14th of June 1886, he says: — " I remember a pair 

 of Pied Wagtails selecting a curious place for their nest at 

 Broomhouse. Close to the hall door are two shells which 

 my father brought from the Morea Castle, into which 

 they had been fired. One is empty, the charge having 

 been drawn, and in this empty shell the Wagtails built 

 their nest, and brought up their family, in spite of people 

 going in and out of the hall door frequently, and looking 

 into the shell" 



The eggs of the Pied Wagtail, which are four or five in 

 number, are greyish white, finely spotted over with ash- 

 colour. Mr. Hardy mentions that a White Wagtail (Mota- 

 cilla alba of Linnaeus) was seen " on stones in a burn " in 

 the neighbourhood of Oldcambus on the 3rd of May 1881,^ 

 and Mr. George Pow, Dunbar, mentions that, in the spring 

 of 1886, he observed a White Wagtail near the Pease Glen.^ 

 No specimen of the White Wagtail {M. alba) has, however, 

 as yet (March 1888) been obtained in Berwickshire for 

 identification. 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ix. p. 553. 



- Ibid. vol. xi. p. 544. 



