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In the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and Bo- 

 tany, it is recorded that at a meeting of the Wernerian So- 

 ciety of Edinburgh in January 1836, Sir Patrick Walker 

 read a notice of the occurrence of the Grey-headed Wagtail 

 on the banks of the water of Leith ; and in a note on the 

 same page, 111, a second example is noticed as having oc- 

 curred near Edinburgh. 



The same Magazine has also recorded two other in- 

 stances of the occurrence of this species. On the 2nd 

 of May 1836, an adult male bird was killed by Mr. Hoy 

 in the parish of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. In the same 

 month a male specimen was shot a little west of New- 

 castle. This bird was with another, probably a female, 

 and from the lateness of the season, it is likely they might 

 have bred in the neighbourhood. This last communica- 

 tion was made by Mr. Albany Hancock. 



Another was taken in April 1837 near Finsbury, a short 

 distance north-east of London. From this bird, by the 

 kindness of Mr. Joseph Clarke, the figure at the head of this 

 subject was taken. This bird was a fine male in his full 

 summer dress. 



H. Gurney, Esq. and the Rev. Richard Lubbock have 

 recorded one example of this species killed at Sherring- 

 ham, in Norfolk. The specimen is in the Norwich Mu- 

 seum. 



On the Continent, Mr. Hoy tells me, this species in- 

 habits wet springy places in moist meadows : and M. Tem- 

 minck adds, that it frequents the vicinity of water, and 

 the gravelly edges of rivers. As a species it is numerous ; 

 common over the central part of Europe, and has a very 

 extensive northern and eastern geographical range. Some 

 British Ornithologists have brought specimens from Swe- 

 den and Norway, where it is a summer visitor, appearing 



