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the end of May, that evidently had a nest in the neighbour- 

 hood, though he was unsuccessful in his repeated endeavours 

 to find it." White of Selborne considered it a winter visiter 

 in Hampshire ; but it also occasionally remains in that coun- 

 ty in summer. I have been favoured with a communication 

 from Mr. James Rawlence of Fordingbridge, received by 

 the hands of Dr. Thackery, stating that the Grey Wagtail 

 reared its young on a farm at Fordingbridge, in the summer 

 of 1836; and Mr. Joseph Clarke of Saffron Walden, who is 

 well acquainted Avith birds, saw this same species in the 

 breeding-season when on a visit near Stockbridge. This 

 part of Hampshire, it will be remembered, is intersected by 

 various excellent trout streams running through rich mea- 

 dows. Montagu, in the Supplement to his Ornithological 

 Dictionary, appears to have become aware " that in a few 

 local instances the grey species had been known to breed in 

 the south of England ; and Mr. Turton and Dr. Edward 

 Moore are good authorities for this bird having bred occa- 

 sionally in Devonshire. 



Mr. Couch of Polperro, who, with his usual kindness, has 

 supplied me with extensive notes on the Birds of Cornwall, 

 says of the Grey Wagtail — abundant in winter ; and within 

 a few years, I have known some pairs remain with us and 

 breed. Robert Slaney, Esq. says of this bird in Shropshire, 

 " it visits us in autumn, remains during winter about our 

 warm spring heads, and leaves us in spring for the north. 

 In North Wales, according to Mr. Eyton, it is also a winter 

 visiter ; but in Lancashire and Cumberland this bird is not 

 only found all the summer, producing its young, but a few 

 remain during winter. 



Mr. Thompson says the Grey Wagtail is extensively, but 

 not universally, distributed over Ireland ; and, like the Pied 

 Wagtail, is permanently resident throughout the country. 

 The stomach of one examined by this gentleman in Decern- 



