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saw several Yellow Wagtails. Of course, at times I was 

 only. able to identify my birds with more or less approximate 

 certainty, but I can say that during my stay in the Havre 

 area I never once saw a Wagtail which I had any reason to 

 believe was Motacilla f. flava, though I have no doubt that 

 T should have found them if I had been out in the country 

 more often. How far the colony of Yellow Wagtails extends 

 I had not the opportunity of finding out for myself. 



I have got a water-colour picture of Motacilla f. rayi painted 

 from the life in 1868, by M. Arcade Noury, of Havre, at 

 Acquigny, near Caudebec, on the south side of the Seine. 

 Degland in his Ornithologie Europeenne, 1849, says that it 

 appears on passage in the neig'hbourhood of Paris, Amiens, 

 Dieppe, and Abbeville, but it seeips that one must not attach 

 too much weight to his statements. The fact that other 

 men have failed to find it, or have seen it only on rare occasions, 

 in other places not very far distant from Havre, would go 

 to prove that Lemetteil was right in describing this locality 

 as the principal stronghold of the species in France. 



