122 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



The specimens which have been obtained 

 and recorded as British, and which amount to 

 a considerable number, have been for the most 

 part met with on the coasts of the eastern, 

 southern, and south-western counties of Eng- 

 land, and almost invariably in the spring of the 

 year. There can be no doubt that it breeds 

 here ; indeed, the fact of its having done so in 

 two or three instances has been already re- 

 corded. In the " Zoologist" for 1870 (p. 2343), 

 Mr. J. Watson of Gateshead, near Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, writes : " I have seen a good many 

 notices in the ' Zoologist ' of the occurrence of 

 the Grey-headed Wagtail : it may interest you 

 to hear of its breeding in this neighbourhood. 

 Two nests were found by a friend of mine last 

 year on some swampy ground near here. This 

 year on the I3th of June I found another ; and 

 on the 8th of July my friend shot two young 

 birds beginning to assume their mature plumage : 

 one of these birds is in the possession of 

 and was identified by Mr. John Hancock of 

 Newcastle." 



