62 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
In 1896 a pair of Pied Wagtails built a nest beneath 
the metals on the Cheshire Lines Railway near Mob- 
berley Station, over which many trains passed daily. 
In spite of the fact that the nest was removed several 
times, owing to the repairing of the permanent way, 
the birds did not forsake the spot, but succeeded in 
bringing off their brood.! 
WHITE WAGTAIL. 
MoraciILLA ALBA, Linnzeus. 
The evidence of the occurrence of the White Wagtail 
in Cheshire is very scanty, but the bird has probably 
been overlooked owing to its close resemblance to the 
Pied Wagtail. Brockholes observed a pair of birds 
near Burton in April 1869.2. The late J. Cordeaux, in 
a letter to Dr. Dobie dated December 15th, 1893, 
writes :—‘Some few years ago I saw a pair of White 
Wagtails (Motacilla alba) on the Peckforton Hills near 
Beeston.’® The late C.S8. Gregson states that he has shot 
the bird on Bidston Hill but the slight description 
he gives appears rather to refer to the Pied Wagtail in 
autumn plumage. 
GREY WAGTAIL. 
MoraciILLA MELANOPE, Pallas. 
The breeding area of the Grey Wagtail in Cheshire 
is practically coincident with that of the Dipper, the 
bird being common on most of the streams in the 
Hill Country of the East. We have met with it no- 
1 George Leighton, Field, vol. lxxxvii. p. 845. 
2 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 7. 3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 293. 
4H. E. Smith, op. cit. p. 237. 
