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widely distributed and resident Pied Wagtail in being 

 almost exclusively a winter visitant in flocks to our 

 eastern seaboard, where he may be seen feeding on 

 seeds on the coast lands, although he sometimes 

 makes his way farther inland. He is of the form of 

 a Chaffinch, and hoj)s — in this contrasting with the 

 Pied Wagtail, which walks and has an inordinately 

 long and ceaselessly wagging tail. As the tail in the 

 Pied Wagtail constitutes half its length, the Snow- 

 Bunting, with its tail of normal size, is a much 

 bulkier bird. The Snow-Bunting is in winter gre- 

 garious, but the Pied Wagtail associates little. 



PIED FLYCATCHER. — Plate 13. Length, 5 

 inches. Upper parts black, except the forehead and 

 a prominent patch on each wing, which are white, 

 with a grayish-white band on the rump ; tail black, 

 but three outside feathers on each side largely white ; 

 cheeks and under parts also white ; bill, legs, and feet 

 black. Summer migrant. 



Eggs. — 6-9, pale plain blue, or exceptionally with 

 a few minute spots of reddish-brown ; '68 x '52 inch 

 (plate 122). 



Nest. — Of dry grass and root-fibres, lined with 

 hair, and placed in a roomy hole in an oak, prefer- 

 ably near the base ; also in pollard-trees and ex- 

 ceptionally holes in walls. 



Distribution. — Very local. Principally in West- 

 morland and Cumberland, parts of Wales and the 

 English counties bordering it ; rarer thence to 

 Northumberland ; rarer still in Scotland. 



