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THE WHITE WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla alba, L. 



The records cf the passage of this species are very scanty 

 and disconnected. It seems to have landed along the whole 

 of the south coast, but the vast majority evidently arrived on 

 the western portion. From that part of the kingdom 

 most of the reports were received, the first recording the 

 passage of birds in Devonshire on the 17th of March. No 

 very marked immigration appears to have been noted till the 

 23rd of April, when reports from the counties of Carnarvon- 

 shire, Flint. Cheshire and Lancashire show that a more or less 

 steady stream of migration was in progress from that date 

 until about the 4th of May, when the movement apparently 

 came to an end. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



March 17th. Devon (passing). 



„ 21st. Gloucester. 



,, 24th. Carnarvon. 



,, 25th. Cornwall. 



„ 27th. Brecon. 



April 1st. Leicester. 



„ 2nd. Leicester. 



,, 4th & 5th. Devon. 



,, 6th. Devon, Herts 



,, 10th. Suffolk, Northumberland. 



„ 12th. Devon. 



,, 13th. Surrey, Leicester, Cheshire. 



„ 13th/ 14th. Channel Islands light. 



„ 16th. Devon, Carnarvon, 



