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Botany, it is recorded that, at a meeting of the Wernerian 

 Society of Edinburgh in January, 1836, Sir Patrick 

 Walker read a notice of the occurrence of the Grey-headed 

 Wagtail on the banks of the water of Leith; and in a 

 note on the same page, 1 1 1 , a second example is noticed 

 as having occurred near Edinburgh. 



The same Magazine has also recorded two other in- 

 stances of the occurrence of this species. On the 2nd of 

 May, 1 836, an adult male bird was killed by Mr. Hoy in 

 the parish of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. In the same month 

 a male specimen was shot a little west of Newcastle. 

 This bird was with another, probably a female, and from 

 the lateness of the season, it is likely they might have bred 

 in the neighbourhood. This last communication was made 

 by Mr. Albany Hancock. 



Another was taken in April, 1837, near Finsbury, a 

 short distance north-east of London. From this bird, by 

 the kindness of Mr. Joseph Clarke, the figure at the head 

 of this subject was taken. This bird was a fine male in 

 his full summer dress. 



H. Gurney, Esq., and the Rev. Richard Lubbock have 

 recorded one example of this species killed at Sherring- 

 ham, in Norfolk. The specimen is in the Norwich Mu- 

 seum. 



On the Continent, Mr. Hoy tells me, this species in- 

 habits wet springy places in moist meadows : and M. Tem- 

 minck adds, that it frequents the vicinity of water, and 

 the gravelly edges of rivers. As a species it is numerous ; 

 common over the central part of Europe, and has a very 

 extensive northern and eastern geographical range. Some 

 British Ornithologists have brought specimens from Swe- 

 den and Norway, where it is a summer visitor, appearing 

 in April, and departing in September: it is excellently 

 figured by M. Nilsson in the coloured illustrations of his 



