174 



GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL. TELLOAV WAGTAIL. 



3Iotacilla neghcta, Gould. Jenyns. 



Budyies jiava. Prince OF Musignano. 



Motacilla Jiava, Linn.eus. Temmixck. 



3Iotacilla — A WagtaiL iVegfZecto— Neglected. 



TnE Grrey-headed Wagtail is plentiful tliroughout the central 

 parts of Europe— Germany, France, or Holland; and is found 

 also in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, and other countries. 

 It occurs likewise in Asia, in India, among the Himalaya 

 Mountains, and in Japan, and also in Africa. 



It was discriminated from our common yellow one by Mr. 

 Gould, and since then it has occurred in several instances. 

 A pair were shot by John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham 

 Place, Plymouth, as he has informed me, in a large marsh 

 at Laira, near that town. May 1st., 1850; and to him I am 

 very much indebted for excellent coloured drawings of both 

 specimens, from one of which the plate is taken. In May, 

 1818, several were procured, and many more seen, as Edward 

 Hearle Eodd, Esq. has recorded, in the neighbourhood of 

 Penzance and Marazion, in Cornwall; one was killed near 

 Melbourne, in Derbyshire, November 23rd., 1816. A pair 

 were also shot at Dover, near the harbour, in July, 1851, 

 wliich Mr. Chaffey, of Dodington, has written me word of. 



One was shot by Mr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping, in 

 October, 1834, on Walton Cliff, near Colchester, Essex; 

 another was seen at the same time. On the 2nd. of May, 

 1836, another, a male bird in adult plumage, was shot by 

 Mr. Hoy, in the parish of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. One of 

 a pair which were seen was shot in the same month of the 



