PIED WAGTAIL 



WATER WAGTAIL WINTER WAGTAIL BLACK AND WHITE 

 WAGTAIL PEGGY WASH-DISH DISH-WASHER. 



PLATE LXIV. FIGURE I. 



Motacilla yarrellii^ GOULD. 



Motadlla tuguMs, TEMMINCK. 



THE nest is commenced in the beginning or middle of 

 April, according to the season. It is placed in situa- 

 tions of very opposite kinds, though never at any very 

 great height, in a hole of a stone wall, the side of a bridge, 

 in a hollow of a tree, on a heap of stones, the bank of a 

 streamlet or river, and even the burrow of a Sand Martin, 

 the side of a stack of hay, peat, or wood, a stony or grassy 

 bank, the stump of a tree, a mud wall, a quarry, or on 

 the grass, sometimes also in a low shrub or bush. One 

 in the garden of Nunburnholme Rectory was built in a 

 corner of the summer-house, in the midst of encircling 

 branches of roses a thorough nook, altogether a most 

 clever and picturesque situation. It is almost always thus 

 supported against something a ledge of rock, bank, build- 

 ing, or wall. A nest has been built in an old flower- 

 pot, and another in a rat-trap. Meyer has known one in 

 the middle of a turnip-field. 



It is somewhere about five inches wide externally, by 



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