GREY WAGTAIL. 373 



ber, contained many specimens of the minute river limpet, 

 AticT/lus Jliiviatilis. 



Of the counties on our eastern coast, the Grey Wagtail 

 appears to be a winter visiter in Essex, Suffolk, and Nor- 

 folk ; and a summer visiter, according to Mr. Selby, in Dur- 

 ham and Northumberland, a few remaining the whole year. 

 Mr. Selby also mentions having observed this bird in June 

 1834, upon most of the banks of the rivers and margins of 

 lochs in Sutherlandshire. This species, however, has no 

 very high northern range, never appearing in Denmark, Nor- 

 way, or Sweden. Southward, on the European Continent, 

 it is resident about Geneva, according to M. Necker, and 

 inhabits Spain, Provence, and Italy, where it is stated by 

 the Prince of Musignano to be also resident all the year. 

 It is also an inhabitant of the island of Madeira. Mr. 

 Gould mentions having seen specimens of this bird from 

 India ; and M. Temminck states that examples from Japan, 

 Java, and Sumatra exactly resembled the European bird. 



In summer the beak of the male is dusky brown ; the 

 edges of both mandibles light brown ; irides dark hazel ; 

 crown of the head and the ear-coverts slate-grey, with a light 

 bufF-coloured streak above the eye extending over the ear- 

 coverts, and another under the ear-coverts ; neck, scapulars, 

 back, and rump, slate-grey ; wing-coverts and quill-feathers 

 almost black ; the coverts tipped with bufFy white ; the 

 tertials edged with white ; upper tail-coverts king''s- yellow ; 

 the outside tail-feather on each side white ; the second and 

 third on each side also white, with a narrow elongated black 

 line on the outer web of each ; the six central tail-feathers 

 black, with yellowish edges at the base ; the chin and throat 

 black ; breast, belly, and under tail-coverts, bright king's- 

 yellow ; legs, toes, and claws, pale brown. 



The whole length of the bird seven inches and there 

 quarters, of which the tail-feathers measure nearly half. 



