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Arrives about the last week in September or early in 

 October, leaving again in March. Have never met 

 with any in our marshes in the breeding-plumage. 

 Mr. Boulton,in the 'Zoologist' for 1865, p. 9596, 

 mentions a male in the full breeding-plumage shot on 

 the 28th of March in that year on Swine Moor near 

 Beverley, and a female shot in the same locality on 

 the following day. 



71. MOTACILLA RAYI, Bonaparte. Yellow Wagtail. 



A summer visitant. The most common and the 

 least aquatic of any of the Wagtails. Arrives about 

 the middle of April, leaving again in September. 



INSESSOEES DENTIEOSTEES. ANTHID&. 



72. ANTHUS ARBOREUS, Bechstein. Tree-Pipit. 



A summer visitant, arriving about the second week 

 in April. Have twice observed it as early as the 5th 

 of the month, and once known it tarry as late as the 

 16th. Leaves again in September. Very common 

 during the spring and summer in the swampy plan- 

 tations and thickets bordering the Great Cotes and 

 Aylesby ' ( beck." Is most frequently found in the 

 neighbourhood of water. 



73. ANTHUS PRATENSIS (Linnseus). Meadow-Pipit. 



Resident throughout the year, receiving, however, 

 larger accessions to their numbers in the early spring, 

 which depart again in the autumn after the breeding- 



