XIV. 



DIPPEE. GPtEY WAGTAIL. 



(Cindus aquaticus.} (Motacilla boarula.) 



PIED WAGTAIL. 



(Motacilla lugubris.) 



I HAVE put these three birds on the same page as they inhabit 

 the same sort of locality, and may be seen together in summer 

 on the same stream. 



The Dipper is not common here (I got my specimen in 

 Forfarshire). I do not know if the absence of minnows may 

 have anything to do with that, or with the Kingfisher being 

 hardly ever seen here, though both of them are common enough 

 in other parts of Scotland. 



The Pied Wagtail is more numerous here than the Grey 

 one (which I should be more inclined to call yellow), and 

 is a summer visitor only. The Pied one may be seen in winter 

 also, especially in the south of Scotland, where it comes to 

 be fed among other hunger-tamed birds at the back door. 



An old housekeeper in Kirkcudbrightshire, who used to feed 

 the little birds in winter, told me that of all the scraps she could 

 collect for them, haggis was the greatest favourite with the birds, 

 as each one could find in that excellent compound the sort of 

 food that suited it best, whether meat or oatmeal. 



Those who practise feeding little birds in winter should 

 get a cocoanut and saw it across, and hang it up by a string 

 near a window. It is very pretty to see the little blue-cap 

 Titmouse get up inside of it and enjoy the contents. (The 

 open end should be undermost, of course.) Blackbirds and others 

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