424 Alexander Goodman More Scientific Papers. 



MOTACILLA ALBA (Linn.}. White Wagtail. 



Provinces I. ? II. ? III. ? IV. ? 



Subprovinces 2 ?, 5 ?, 6 ? 7 ?, 12 ? 



Lat. 50-53 ?. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Rev. M. A. Mathews considers the White Wagtail a regular 

 spring visitor to the coast of North Devon, and has noticed a pair fre- 

 quenting the banks of a stream near Barnstaple. He also writes that,, 

 in June, 1860, his friend Mr. Brodrick, who knows the bird well, found 

 a pair of White Wagtails nesting in a wall bordering on a little stream 

 between Ilfracombe and Morte. 



At Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, Mr. H. Rogers has obtained a 

 pair of Wagtails, with their nest, which Mr. Bond and Mr. Gould refer 

 to M. alba, though the birds are not so pale in colour as usual. 



With regard to Sussex, Mr. Swaysland has informed the Rev. M. A. 

 Mathews that the White Wagtail is a regular summer visitant to the 

 south downs, and then frequents the little pools on the high grounds, in 

 the vicinity of which it is believed to breed. 



Dr. Plomley told the Rev. H. Roundell that M. alba was a regular 

 summer visitor, and bred in Kent. In the ' Zoologist,' p. 1497, 

 Dr. Plomley describes it as common about Romney Marsh. 



Mr. Charles Gordon has no doubt of its breeding in the cliffs of 

 Kent, where he has noticed it during the breeding-season ; and, from 

 the clamour and actions of birds which he has shot there, he has no 

 doubt there was a nest. To this may be added Mr. Carter's statement 

 that he has caught the female upon the nest at Whittlesea (Hunts), 

 where he saw the birds in great numbers for two successive summers 

 (Hewitson, ' Eggs of B. B.' ed. 3. p. 165). 



MOTACILLA SULPHUREA (Bechst.}. Grey Wagtail. 



Provinces I. II. III. V. VIII.-XVII. 



Subprovinces i, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 15, 20-32, 34, 35. 



Lat. 50-59. " Scottish " type, or Northern. 



Scarce in the south during summer, and then found mostly in the 

 west. Breeds occasionally in Cornwall (Mr. E. H. Rodd} ; regularly 

 in North Devon (Rev. M. A. Mathews}, in South Devon (Mr. J* 

 Gatcombe}, near Herringston in Dorset (Mr. If. Groves], at Chemies 

 (Gould, 'Contrib. to Ornith.' 1849, p. 137), and by the little river 

 Chess (Rev. B. Burgess}, in Bucks and in Gloucester, where it is rare 

 (Rev. F. J. Scott}. Is believed to breed also in Somerset, Wilts, 

 Hants, and Kent (as mentioned by Yarrell). Breeds more numerously 

 in Stafford and Shropshire, and from Derbyshire northwards throughout 

 Scotland, though considered by Macgillivray very rare north of Inver- 

 ness. 



Doubtless nidifies in South and North Wales, though I have no 

 record of its doing so. 



