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endeavours to find it." White of Selborne considered it 

 a winter visitor in Hampshire ; but it also occasionally re- 

 mains in that county in summer. I have been favoured 

 with a communication from Mr. James Rawlance, of Ford- 

 ingbridge, received by the hands of Dr. Thackeray, stating 

 that the Grey Wagtail reared its young on a farm at Ford- 

 ingbridge, in the summer of 1836 : and Mr. Joseph Clark, 

 of Saffron Walden, who is well acquainted with birds, saw 

 this same species in the breeding-season when on a visit 

 near Stockbridge. This part of Hampshire, it will be 

 remembered, is intersected by various excellent trout 

 streams running through rich water meadows. Montagu, 

 in the Supplement to his Ornithological Dictionary, ap- 

 pears to have become aware " that in a few local instances 

 the grey species had been known to breed in the south of 

 England ; " and Mr. Turton and Dr. Edward Moore are 

 good authorities for this bird having bred occasionally in 

 Devonshire. 



Mr. Blackwall observes it in Denbigh and Caernarvon- 

 shire throughout the year, but much more numerous in 

 summer than in winter. 



Mr. Couch, of Polperro, who, with his usual kindness, 

 has supplied me with extensive notes on the Birds of Corn- 

 wall, says of the Grey Wagtail " abundant in winter ; and 

 within a few years, I have known some pairs remain with 

 us and breed." Robert Slaney, Esq., says of this bird in 

 Shropshire, " it visits us in autumn, remains during winter 

 about our warm spring heads, and leaves us in spring for 

 the north." In North Wales, according to Mr. Eyton, it 

 is also a winter visitor ; but in Lancashire and Cumber- 

 land this bird is not only found all the summer, producing 

 its young, but a few remain during winter. 



Mr. Thompson says the Grey Wagtail is extensively, 

 but not universally, distributed over Ireland ; and, like 



