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the Pied Wagtail, is permanently resident throughout the 

 country. The stomach of one examined by this gentleman 

 in December, contained many specimens of the minute 

 river limpet, Ancylus flumatilis. 



Of the counties on our eastern coast, the Grey Wagtail 

 appears to be a winter visitor in Essex, Suffolk, and Nor- 

 folk ; and a summer visitor, according to Mr. Selby, in 

 Durham and Northumberland, a few remaining the whole 

 year. Mr. Selby also mentions having observed this bird 

 in June, 1834, upon most of the banks of the rivers and 

 margins of lochs in Sutherlandshire. This species, how- 

 ever, has no very high northern range, never appearing in 

 Denmark, Norway, or Sweden. Southward, on the Euro- 

 pean continent, it is resident about Geneva, according to 

 M. Necker, and inhabits Spain, Provence, and Italy ; it is 

 found in Corfu, Sicily, and Malta. It is also an inhabitant 

 of the island of Madeira. B. Hodgson, Esq., Mr. Gould, 

 and Mr. E. Blyth, have seen specimens of this bird from 

 various parts of India ; and M. Temminck states that ex- 

 amples from Japan, Java, and Sumatra, exactly resembled 

 the European bird. 



In summer the beak of the male is dusky brown ; the 

 edges of both mandibles light brown ; irides dark hazel ; 

 crown of the head and the ear-coverts slate-grey, with a 

 light buff-coloured streak above the eye extending over 

 the ear-coverts, and another under the ear-coverts ; neck, 

 scapulars, back, and rump, slate-grey ; wing-coverts and 

 quill -feathers almost black ; the coverts tipped with buffy 

 white ; the tertials edged with white ; upper tail -coverts 

 king's yellow ; the outside tail-feather on each side white ; 

 the second and third on each side also white, with a narrow 

 elongated black line on the outer web of each; the six 

 central tail-feathers black, with yellowish edges at the 

 base ; the chin and throat black ; breast, belly, and under 



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