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hood, though he was unsuccessful in his repeated endeavours 

 to find it." White of Selborne considered it a winter visitor 

 in Hampshire ; but it also occasionally remains in that coun- 

 ty in summer. I have been favoured with a communication 

 from Mr. James Rawlance of Fordingbridge, received by 

 the hands of Dr. Thackeray, stating that the Grey Wagtail 

 reared its young on a farm at Fordingbridge, in the summer 

 of 1836 : and Mr. Joseph Clark of Saffron Walden, who is 

 well acquainted with birds, saw this same species in the 

 breeding-season when on a visit near Stockbridge. This 

 part of Hampshire, it will be remembered, is intersected by 

 various excellent trout streams running through rich mea- 

 dows. Montagu, in the Supplement to his Ornithological 

 Dictionary, appears to have become aware " that in a few 

 local instances the grey species had been known to breed in 

 the south of England ; and Mr. Turton and Dr. Edward 

 Moore are good authorities for this bird having bred occa- 

 sionally in Devonshire. 



Mr. Couch of Polperro, who, with his usual kindness, has 

 supplied me with extensive notes on the Birds of Cornwall, 

 says of the Grey Wagtail abundant in winter ; and within 

 a few years, I have known some pairs remain with us and 

 breed. Robert Slaney, Esq., says of this bird in Shropshire, 

 " it visits us in autumn, remains during winter about our 

 warm spring heads, and leaves us in spring for the north. 11 

 In North Wales, according to Mr. Eyton, it is also a winter 

 visitor ; but in Lancashire and Cumberland this bird is not 

 only found all the summer, producing its young, but a few 

 remain during winter. 



Mr. Thompson says the Grey Wagtail is extensively, but 

 not universally, distributed over Ireland ; and, like the 

 Pied Wagtail, is permanently resident throughout the 

 country. The stomach of one examined by this gentleman 



