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Eeservoir, at Hendon, and at Hampstead. Mr. F. 

 Power has observed a Grey Wagtail running along 

 the leads of his house in London, and Mr. Belfrage 

 has seen this species at Muswell Hill. Although I 

 have found the Grey Wagtail breeding in Northum- 

 berland in May, yet in the south it appears to be 

 only a Vi^inter visitant. It is sometimes, though 

 rarety, however, found here in summer. Edwards, 

 in his ' Gleanings,' figures a male bird of this species 

 in summer plumage, which was shot near London ; 

 and I have seen a second in summer plumage wdiich 

 was killed at Hampstead. 



Greyheaded Wagtail, Motacilla neglecta. I 

 have inserted this species on the authority of Mr. 

 Yarrell. At p. 439, vol. i., of his ' British Birds,' the 

 following paragraph occurs : " Another was taken in 

 April, 1837, "a short distance north-east of London. 

 From this bird the figure at the head of this subject 

 was taken. This bird was a fine male in full summer 



dress." 



In May, 18G4, iSlr. W. H. Power shot an imma- 

 ture bird of this species at Kingsbury Reservoir. 

 He was first attracted by the note, and in a letter to 

 me upon the subject, some months later, he says : 

 " It was not the plumage or size of the bird that 

 made me think it was a Greyheaded Wagtail, so 

 much as the note, which first attracted my attention, 

 being certainly different from that of the yellow 

 species, and this induced me to shoot the bird in 

 order to examine it." 



