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PIED WAGTAIL. 



WATER WAGTAIL. WHITE WAGTAIL. BLACK AND WHITE WAGTAIL. 

 WINTER WAGTAIL. PEGGY WASH-DISH. DISH-WASHER. 



PLATE LXIV. FIG. I. 



Mofacilla Yarrellii, GOULD. MACGILLIVEAT. 



" alba, LINNJEUS. LATHAM. 



THE nest is commenced in the beginning or middle of April, according 

 to the season. It is placed in situations of very opposite kinds 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, the side of a stack 

 of hay, peat, or wood, a stony or grassy bank, a mud wall, or on the 

 grass. Meyer has known one in the middle of a turnip-field. It is 

 about five inches wide externally, by about three and a half internally, 

 and is composed of stems of grass, leaves, small roots, and moss, lined 

 with wool, hair, thistle-down, or feathers, and any other such soft 

 substances, all somewhat rudely, or rather loosely put together. 



The eggs, five or six in number, and of an elongated oval form, are 

 light grey, or greyish or bluish white, sometimes tinged with yellowish 

 or greenish, spotted all over with grey and brown. They vary, however, 

 very considerably both in size and colour. 



