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the rocks, and the alder and birch and mountain-ash 

 trees, just as we expect there to find the Dipper. 

 But this is in summer mostly; in winter he becomes 

 far more familiar, and during that season comes 

 much nearer to the busy haunts of men. We have 

 often seen Gray Wagtails in the bed of the grimy 

 Don and Sheaf in the very heart of smoky Sheffield 



The Gray Wagtail. 



during midwinter; and we know the bird as a winter 

 resident about all the streams and sluices and dams 

 in the series of Endcliffe Woods. The bird seems, 

 however, closely attached to the stream in its upland 

 solitudes, and at the first sign of spring goes back 

 to favourite haunts among the moorlands and hills. 

 We can recall many a romantic reach of the Der- 

 went, the Wye, and the Dove, where the Gray 

 Wagtail, the Dipper, and the Kingfisher might be 

 watched together, the former bird, daintiest and 



