PLATE I 

 GREY WAGTAIL. Motacilla melanope 



April 1897. Doune, Perthshire. I found this nest in the beginning of April 

 while photographing a Dipper's nest. It was artfully concealed under a fern 

 growing out of a crack below an overhanging ledge of rock beside the river 

 Teith. The eggs were very highly incubated, and the birds kept flying about 

 close to me while I was taking the photograph. On this stretch of the river 

 there are rocky banks down one side, on which four or five pairs of Grey 

 Wagtails nest every year, nearly always in the same place. 



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