122 Mr. A. G. More on the Distribution of Birds 



Blasius considers the Pied Wagtail a local race of the next 

 species. 



MoTACiLLA ALBA [Linn.). White Wagtail. 



Provinces I. ? II. ? III. ? IV. ? 



Subprovinces 2 ?, 5 ?, 6 ?, 7 ?, 1 2 ? 



Lat. 50°-53° ?. " English " type. Not in Ireland. 



The Eev. M. A. Mathews considers the White Wagtail a 

 regular spring visitor to the coast of North Devon, and has 

 noticed a pair frequenting the banks of a stream near Barn- 

 staple. He also writes that, in June 1860, his friend Mr. 

 Brodrick, who knows the bird well, found a pair of White 

 Wagtails nesting in a wall bordering on a little stream between 

 Ilfracombe and Morte. 



At Freshwater, in the Isle of Wight, Mr. H. Rogers has 

 obtained a pair of Wagtails, with their nest, which Mr. Bond and 

 Mr. Gould refer to M. alba, though the birds are not so pale in 

 colour as usual. 



With regard to Sussex, Mr. Swaysland has informed the Rev. 

 M. A. Mathews that the White Wagtail is a regular summer 

 visitant to the south downs, and then frequents the little pools 

 on the high grounds, in the vicinity of which it is believed to 

 breed. 



Dr. Plomley told the Rev. H. Roundel! that M. alba was a 

 regular summer visitor, and bred in Kent. In the ' Zoologist,' 

 p. 1497, Dr. Plomley describes it as common about Romney 

 Marsh. 



Mr. Charles Gordon has no doubt of its breeding in the 

 cliffs of Kent, where he has noticed it during the breeding- 

 season j and, from the clamour and actions of birds which he has 

 shot there, he has no doubt there was a nest. To this may be 

 added Mr. Carter's statement that he has caught the female 

 upon the nest at Whittlesea (Hunts), where he saw the birds 

 in great numbers for two successive summers (Hewitson, 

 'Eggs of B. B.' ed. 3. p. 165). 



MoTACiLLA suLPHUREA (Bechst.). Grey Wagtail. 

 Provinces I. II. III. V. VIII.-XVII. 



