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landing on the south coast by thousands \ they never 

 appear even in the slightest decree Tf^gu^ $r 

 exhausted by their passage, as, after alighting for 

 a few minutes at some brackish pool or on newly- 

 ploughed land, they invariably continue their 

 journey direct to the quarters they intend to take 

 up for the summer. Although hundreds might 

 have been observed within a mile or two of the 

 shore during the early morning, it is seldom that 

 more than a pair or two will be met with after two 

 o'clock in the day, the whole of the birds of passage 

 having made their way inland. 



Should the weather set in cold and stormy, 

 few, if any, will make their appearance, but with 

 a change of temperature their accustomed haunts 

 will again be alive with fresh arrivals. 



The case is copied from a sketch taken on the 

 north side of the Downs between Falmer and 

 Plumpton in Sussex, the specimens both old and 

 young being obtained at the same place in June, 

 1872. 



GKEY WAGTAIL. (SUMMER). 

 Case 132. 



It is but seldom in the south that this bird is 

 met with in the summer plumage ; its breeding 

 quarters being for the most part in the northern 

 counties, and in the Highlands of Scotland. 



When living in Perthshire I used generally to 

 notice their arrival about the middle of April. 

 Though they usually frequent the stony banks of 

 rivers and rocky burns, I have noticed a few that 

 bred in the neighbourhood regularly visiting the 

 dust-heaps and open drains that are to be met with 

 in the centre of some of the Highland towns. 



The sketch from which the case is copied was 

 taken from the bridge at Innerwick in Glenlyon in 

 Perthshire, where a pair of these birds nested 



