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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



THE Pied Wagtail (Molacilla alba Yarrellii, Gould) is a 

 resident in, and is widely and generally distributed over, 

 the British Isles during the nesting season, occurring also 

 in Western Europe ; elsewhere it is only a summer visitant ; 

 it spends the winter in the western portions of North 

 Africa. The adult male in summer has the top of the 

 head, nape, part of the shoulders, chin, neck, throat, and 

 upper breast, rich black; forehead, sides of the face, and 

 patch on sides of neck, white ; mantle, rump, and wing- 

 coverts, black ; the latter having white margins to the 

 feathers, forming a double bar ; primaries, blackish ; inner 

 secondaries, with white margins on outer edge ; abdomen, 

 white ; sides and flanks, tinged with blackish ; tail, black ; 

 outermost feathers, white on outer webs ; irides, dark 

 brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. Length, seven inches, 



