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80. Grey Wagtail, Motacilla boarula L. 



Plate 19, fig. 1, 3, 4, 5 (Germany), 2 (S. Russia). PL 26, fig. 12 

 (Staffordshire, Blagg Coll.) 



Eggs: Thienemann , Fortpfl. Tab. XXV, fig. a — c. Hewitson, 

 I. Ed. I, pi. LIX, fig. 2; II. Ed. I, pi. XXXIIl, fig. 2; III. Ed. I, pi. 

 XLII, fig. 1. Baedeker, Tab. 35, fig. 11. Taczanowski, Tab. LXIX, 

 fig. 2, 3. Seebohm, Br. Birds, pi. 14; id. Col. Fig. pi. 58 a. Frohawk, 

 Br. Birds, I, pi. Ill, fig. 93. Dresser, pi. — , fig. 20—24, and pi. — , 

 fig. 47, 48. Nest: 0. Lee, IV, p. 114. 



British Local Names: Rock Wagtail. "Welsh: Siglen or Tinsigl 

 Lwyd. 



Foreign Names: Bohemia: Konipas liorni. Denmark: QraaVipst- 

 jert. France: Hochequeiie. Germany: Graue Bachstelze. Greece: Tsili- 

 hethra. Helgoland: Giihl Lungen. Holland: ^Groote gele Kwikstaart. 

 Hungary: Hegyihillegctd. Italy: Ballerina gialla. Poland: Pliszka 

 wolarka. Portugal: Alveola amarella. Russia: Trjasoguska gornaja. 

 Sardinia: Coetta groga. Spain: Pepita amarilla. Sweden: Grd aria. 



Motacilla sulphur ea Bechst. Newton, ed. Yarrell, I, p. 552. M. 

 melanope Pall, Dresser, Birds of Europe, III, p. 251; id. Man. Pal. 

 Birds, p. 202. M. boarula boarula L. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 298. 



Breeding Range: Central and southern Eui'ope, but absent from 

 the North and represented by subspecies in N. Asia and Madeira. [Also 

 found in the Great Atlas.] 

 British jjj Great Britain this species, though nowhere very numerous, is 



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found m scattered pairs breeding at intervals along the courses of rivers 

 and streams in most hilly districts in Scotland, Wales, the Cumbrian and 

 Pennine ranges, and the "W. of England, but is absent as a rule during 

 the breeding season from the level plains and the sea coast. It breeds 

 regularly in the Devonian peninsula, but is only known to nest occasionally 

 in the counties east of Dorset, Wilts, and Gloucester in the S. of Eng- 

 land, although nests have been recorded from Hants, Sussex, Surrey, 

 Kent, Berks, Bucks, Oxford and Northants. Further north a few pairs 

 breed in Leicester, and it is common in Derby and AV. Yorks, but does 

 not nest in Notts or E. Yorkshire, though recorded by Cordeaux in N. 

 Lincoln. It is rare in Anglesea and the Isle of Man, but is pretty 

 generally distributed on the mainland of Scotland, while it occurs in small 

 numbers on most of the Inner Hebrides and on Skye, and it is said to 

 breed in the Orkneys. To the Shetlands and Outer Hebrides it is only 

 a straggler. In Ireland it has been recorded as nesting in every county. 

 *^°°' It is absent from Ireland, the Faeroes, Scandinavia, Denmark and 



tlnental ^^y -p, . . . ^^ . . . 



Europe. N. Russia; while in Germany it is common on the mountain streams of 



