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and the markings creamy-brown. Occasionally a 

 few streaks of dark brown are present. Much like 

 the eggs of the Yellow and Blue Headed Wagtails, 

 also Sedge Warbler, but easily identified by 

 locality, situation, and a sight of the parent birds. 

 Size about .75 by .56 in. (See Plate III.) 



Time. April, May, and June. 



Remarks. Resident, but subject to local migra- 

 tion. Notes : sziszi or zisy y sharply uttered. Local 

 and other names : Dun Wagtail, Nanny Washtail, 

 Grey Wagster. Sits closely, and when disturbed 

 hovers round with her mate, uttering a note 

 of alarm. 



WAGTAIL, PIED. 



(Motacilla lugubris.) 

 Order PASSERES ; Family MOTACILLID^: (WAGTAILS). 



Description of Parent Birds. 

 Length about seven and a 

 half inches, several of which 

 are accounted for by the some- 

 what abnormally long tail. 

 Bill moderately long, nearly 

 straight, slender, and black. 

 Irides dusky. Forehead, sides 

 of head, round the eyes, and 

 a portion of the sides of the 

 neck, white. Latter half of 

 J crown, nape, back, and upper 

 tail - coverts black ; wing- 

 coverts black, edged and tipped with white; quills 

 black, some of them bordered with greyish - white 



PIED WAGTAIL. 



