WHITE WAGTAIL. 



IKSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



403 



MOTACILLIDrt. 



THE WHITE WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla alba. 



Motacilla alba. White Wagtail, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xix. 



Bergeronette grise, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 255; vol. iii. 



p. 178. 



THE belief expressed in the first edition of this work, 

 that attention being directed to the subject, the White 

 Wagtail would be occasionally found in this country as a 

 summer visitor, has been verified in several instances. It 

 happened that late in the month of May 1841 my friend 

 Mr. Fredereck Bond found two pairs of this White Wag- 

 tail frequenting the banks of the reservoir at Kingsbury, 

 and succeeded in shooting three of the birds, two males 

 and a female, and very kindly gave me one of the males. 

 In the spring of 1842 a specimen was shot near Carlisle, 



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