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WHITE WAGTAIL. 
GREY AND WHITE WAGTAIL. 
PLATE LXIV.—FIG. II. 
Motacilla alba, F ; : Linnzvus. GMELIN. 
Motacilla Brissont, S . Macernirivray. 
THE nest is generally placed in a hole of a bank 
or of a tree, higher or lower indifferently; sometimes 
under the eaves of a thatched house, or between the 
timbers of a roof, among felled wood, or roots that 
the earth may have fallen away from, a meadow, 
under a bridge, or in a heap of stones. Both birds 
assist in its formation, bringing together for the purpose 
small sticks and twigs, moss, grass, straws, leaves, and 
roots, and lining the whole with wool and hair. 
The eggs, which have little or no natural polish on 
them, and are four or five, six or seven in number, 
are bluish white in colour, speckled all over with 
minute grey specks, and spotted with larger spots 
of brown, principally at the larger end; occasionally 
in the way of an irregular belt. 
The engraving is from a drawing of an egg in Mr. 
Birkbeck’s collection. 
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