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PIED WAGTAIL. 



WATER WAGTAIL. WHITE WAGTAIL. 



BLACK-AND-WHITE WAGTAIL. WINTER WAGTAIL. 



PEGGY-WASH-DISH. DISH-WASHER. 



PLATE LXIV. FIG. I. 



Motacilla Yarrellii, . . Gould. Macgilliveay. 

 Motacilla alba, . . . LiNNiEUS. Latham. 



The nest is commenced in tlie beginning or middle 

 of April, according to the season. It Is placed in situ- 

 ations of very opposite kinds — in a hole of a stone wall, 

 the side of a bridge, in a hollow of a tree, on a heap 

 of stones, the bank of a streamlet or river, the side of 

 a stack of hay, peat, or wood, a stony or grassy bank, 

 a mud wall, or on the grass. Meyer has known one 

 in the middle of a turnip field. It is about five inches 

 wide externally, by about three and a half internally, 

 and is composed of stems of grass, leaves, small roots, and 

 moss, lined with wool, hair, thistle-down, or feathers, 

 and any other such soft substances, all somewhat rudely 

 or rather loosely put together. 



The eggs, five or six in number, and of an elongated 

 oval form, are light grey, or greyish or bluish white, 

 sometimes tinged with yellowish or greenish, spotted all 

 over with grey and brown. They vary, however, very 

 considerably both in size and colour. 



