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THE WHITE WAGIAH.. 



MoTACiLLA ALBA, Liiinjeus. 



71iis Continental representative of the familiar species already 

 described was first recognized in England by j\Ir. F. Bond, who 

 found two pairs at Kingsbury Reservoir, Middlesex, in the latter part 

 of May 1841. Since that date it has occurred in a good many 

 counties of England, being not uncommon in Cornwall in spring ; 

 and it is said to have nested in Devonshire, the Isle of Wight, 

 Kent, Middlesex, Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire. Mr. 

 Xjpcher observed two in September 1S83, on his lawn at Felt- 

 well, Norfolk ; while of a pair of birds obtained with their nest 

 and young in that county, presented to the British Museum by 

 Lord W^alsingham, the male is a White and the female is a Pied W^ag- 

 tail. Dr. Ciinther has informed me of a similar case of interbreed- 

 ing in Suffolk. Mr. Cordeaux mentions several occurrences in 

 Lincolnshire, in spring ; competent observers have noticed it in 

 Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumberland ; and on 

 May 24th 1885 I u-atched an adult, probably a male, by some 

 lead-mills near Langley Castle in Northumberland. Li Scotland 

 it has been observed in some of the southern counties ; while 

 pairs have been noticed at Gairloch, in Ross-shire. Mr. Booth saw 

 several pairs in April feeding on the river bank at Inverness, and 

 he also observed a number on the island of Lewis, early in May 

 1877, after rough weather. Saxby says that he obtained it in Shct- 



