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DISTRIBUTION. Great Britain. Summer-resident. Arrives end 

 March, April, and early May ; departs Sept. Distributed through- 

 out England and Wales, but rarely breeds Devon, where, as 

 Cornwall and west Wales, chiefly known as passage-migrant. In 

 Scotland chiefly in south (but not Tweed area) and rarely as far as 

 Inverness and Aberdeen on east side, and not beyond Clyde area 

 in west, north of which a straggler. Said to have bred Orkneys. 

 Occurred N. Rona (O. Hebrides), Shetlands, and Fair Isle (twice). 

 Ireland. Very local, breeding on Loughs Neagh, Corrib, and Mask ; 

 occurs autumn Dublin coast and three times Wexford Lights. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Appears to breed in small numbers in 

 west Holland (Snouckaert van Schauburg, Avifauna Neerlandica, 

 p. 27, 1908), west France, and perhaps Portugal, also, it is said, on 

 Heligoland (Weigold, Orn. Monatsber., 1910, p. 158). Migrates 

 through west Europe to west Africa. 



MOTACILLA BOARULA 



80. Motacilla boarula boarula L.* THE GREY WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA BOABULA Linnaeus, Mantissa Plantarum, p. 527 (1771 



Sweden). 



Motacilla grisea Miiller, Natursystem Suppl., p. 175 (1776 Ex Edwards, 



who described and figured a bird killed near London. Miiller erroneously 



wrote " Amerika "). 



Motacilla sulphurea Bechstein, Yarrell, i, p. 552 ; Motacilla melanope 



(nee Pallas), Saunders, p. 125. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Resident. Breeds very sparingly 

 in eastern half of England and only sparingly in south-eastern 

 counties, most common in Wales, Ireland, and Scotland, but scarce 

 in north Scotland, breeds Orkneys, but only a visitor to Shetlands 

 and O. Hebrides. A movement from its breeding-places southwards 

 occurs in autumn. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Europe from south Sweden to Mediter- 

 ranean countries, east to Ural. Partial migrant, apparently only 

 in small numbers south in winter to Senegambia and British East 

 Africa. Replaced by a closely-allied form (M. b. melanope) in north 

 Asia (in winter in tropics), and by another on Atlantic isles. (With 

 regard to the form from the Canary Islands, see Hartert, Vog. pal. 

 Fauna, i, p. 299). 



MOTACILLA ALBA 



81 Motacilla alba lugubris Temm. THE PIED WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA LTJGUBRIS Temminck, Man. d'Orn., i, p. 253 (1820 Partim. 

 Temminck mentions specimens from Siberia, Crimea, France, Egypt, 



* M . boarula of 1771 is, of course, the oldest name and melanope refers 

 to an eastern form with longer tail. E.H. 



