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THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla rail (Bonap,). 



Between" the 9tli and the 12th of April small numbers of 

 Yellow Wagtails arrived on the south-east coast and a few- 

 stragglers were observed inland, as far north as Yorkshire. 



A large immigration apparently took place between the 

 17th and the 2 1st of Aprils numbers were observed in 

 Kent from the 17th onwards, and in Glamorgan a large 

 flock was noticed on the 19th. It was perhaps some of these 

 birds which were observed in Cheshire on the following day 

 and in Yorkshire a day later ; small increases were also 

 recorded in several other counties. 



There was hardly any evidence in the records of any 

 extensive immigration after the 20th of April, though in- 

 creases were noted in one or two inland counties, such as 

 Cheshire and Yorkshire. By the 24th the birds were said to 

 be resident and to have already paired in several localities, 

 and by the 11th of May they were nesting in Kent, Cheshire, 

 Derbysliire and Staffordshire. 



Observations on this species were scanty, and none 

 were received from Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Rutland, 

 Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Nottingham- 

 shire, Brecon, Carmarthen, Cardigan, Carnarvon^ Northum- 

 berland and the Isle of Man, 



There was only one lighthouse-record, viz, that of a bird 

 killed at St. Catherine's, Isle of Wight, at 1 a.m. on the 10th 

 of May. 



