60 AMPELIN.E. 



SPECIES 59 THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla flava. Selby. 

 Bergeronnette flaveole. Temm. 



THE YELLOW WAGTAIL is a more delicately formed species 

 than the grey ; but, from the shortness of the tail, is deficient 

 of that grace which is so peculiar to the other. 



The rarest of our three Irish wagtails, we can only announce 

 it as a very local summer visitant to our island, and that prin- 

 cipally to the shores of Lough Neagh, in the north of Ireland.* 

 Very similar in habits to the other species, it frequents more 

 the vicinity of fields and meadows, where it occasionally nidifys. 

 On one occasion we had the pleasure of meeting with it on 

 the banks of the Dodder, near Irishtown. It was perfectly 

 tame ; walking and feeding along the pathway, and admitting 

 of a very near approach, and, when at last disturbed, flew to 

 the branches of a willow tree overhanging the water, where 

 it uttered its pleasing call-note. About the same time ano- 

 ther specimen was taken alive by a cabin-boy, on board a 

 coal-vessel entering the harbour of Dublin. 



The occurrence of this species in the north is a matter of 

 surprise to us, as we should have suspected a more southern 

 locality, owing to the vicinity of the point of migration. 



A male and female in our possession, obtained at Lough 

 Neagh, were kindly presented by James R. Garrat, Esq., of 

 Belfast, a gentleman whose critical research on many interest- 

 ing points of our ornithology are so fully appreciated in the 

 pages of Mr. Thompson's Fauna of Ireland. 



Habitat Western Europe. 



FAMILY XI. AMPELIN.E (CHATTERERS). 



GENUS XXVIII BOMBYCILLA (WAXWING). 



SPECIES 60 THE BOHEMIAN WAXWLNG. 



Bombycilla Garrula. Linn. 

 Grand Jasuer. Temm. 



THIS species, unusual in its occurrence, has been obtained in 

 some fifteen or twenty authenticated instances in various 



* Thompson. 



