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p. 4440), remarks " During the protracted dry weather 

 from the beginning of last March to the end of 

 April, we had the wind from the N.E., with light 

 sunny days, and every day, for more than six weeks, 

 there were to be seen some forty or fifty yellow wag- 

 tails running upon our Denes ; and on the 24th of April 

 I observed a grey-headed one amongst them. I fetched 

 my gun and shot it. On the 25th I killed two more, 

 and on the 26th I killed one. These four were all 

 males, besides which I shot on the 26th two females." 

 Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, and Mr. J. H. Gurney, have 

 each a pair of these birds in their collections. Another 

 male was also obtained at the same place in June, 

 1849, as recorded in the above named journal, p. 2499, 

 besides the one recorded by Yarrell and other authors, 

 to have been killed by the late Mr. Hoy, on the 2nd 

 of May, 1836, at Stoke Nayland, in the same county. 

 It is further stated by Messrs. Gurney and Fisher, that 

 "a nest, containing four eggs, was taken on a heath 

 at Herringfleet, in Suffolk, on the 16th of June, 1842, 

 which probably belonged to a bird of this species. The 

 eggs closely resembled an egg of the grey-headed wag- 

 tail, which had been taken on the continent, and the 

 situation of the nest, and the materials of which it was 

 composed, also corresponded with the descriptions given 

 of the nest of this bird." 



MOTACILLA RAYI, Bonaparte. 

 YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



A common summer visitant and breeds with us, 

 appearing in March and leaving again in September. 

 One can scarcely think of this beautiful bird without 

 calling to mind the luxuriant herbage of our meadows 



