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DISTRIBUTION. England. Summer-resident in small numbers 

 south-east Sussex and south-west Kent, arriving end April and 

 departing August. Has bred several times Durham and Wilts., 

 and possibly north Devon, Norfolk, Suffolk, north Kent, and Essex. 

 Elsewhere often recorded as a straggler, but chiefly in south. 

 Wales. Two Merioneth, one Carnarvon, and has occurred, and 

 possibly bred, Brecon. Scotland. Has occurred at Edinburgh, in 

 Haddington, Lanark, Dumfries, Shetlands, and Fair Isle. Possibly 

 nested Aberdeen. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in most parts of Europe, from 

 middle Scandinavia to Pyrenees, and (in small numbers) north 

 Italy, eastwards throughout Russia (limits in south-east uncertain) 

 and Hungary to Danube and Save. Winters in Africa. Repre- 

 sented in north Europe, Mediterranean countries, south Russia, 

 and various parts of north Asia by a number of other forms. 



75. Motacilla flava beema Sykes SYKES'S WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA BEEMA Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc., London, 1832, p. 90 (Dekkan, 



India). 



Motacilla beema, Butterfield, Zool., 1902, p. 232 ; Saunders, Brit. B., i, 



p. 11 ; N. F. Ticehurst, t.c., i, p. 136. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. - - One. Male Rottingdean (Sussex), 

 April 20, 1898 (ut supra}. [A male, Sussex, May 31, 1901, 

 said to have been probably of this race, is a worn example of M . f. 

 flava (N. F. Ticehurst, Brit. B., i, p. 136).] 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. West Siberia. Winters in India. Casual 

 in Europe (Hungary). 



76. Motacilla flava thunbergi Billberg* THE GREY- 

 HEADED WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA THUNBERGI Billberg, Synopsis Fauna Scand., i, 2, Aves, 

 p. 50 (1828 Lapland). 



Motacilla viridis Gm. : M. borealis Sundev., Saunders, Brit. B., i, p. 10 ; 

 M. f. borealis Sund., N. F. Ticehurst, t.c., i, p. 136. 



DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. One probable, Penzance (Saun- 

 ders, p. 128). One Yorks., spring, 1901. Possibly a pair bred Romney 

 Marsh, June, 1906. Two, Sussex, May, 1903, one, May, 1904, one, 

 May, 1907, one, spring 1869 or 1870, one, May, 1909. One possibly 

 Dover (Kent), 1889. Pentland Skerries (Orkneys), one May, 1888, 

 and one May, 1889. Fair Isle, " fair numbers " end May and 

 early June and Sept., 1908, spring and autumn, 1909, and in 1910. 



* Billberg's name antedates Sundevall's borealis by 14 years, and has 

 now been widely adopted. E.H. 



