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THE AVHITE WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla alba. L. 



The records of the White Wagtail were not very numeroiis 

 and were somewhat puzzling ; for np to the 24th of April the 

 majority were from the south-eastern and midland comities, 

 whereas after that date they were chiefly from the west. 

 The data were, however, much too scanty to enable any 

 deductions to be drawn from this somewhat curious dis- 

 tribution. The first birds noticed were in Brecon on the 

 10th and 11th of March, subsequently they were only noted 

 in Wales on the 18th of March and the 3rd of April until the 

 end of the latter month. Stragglers were recorded from 

 Sussex on the 14th, 22nd and 2Gth of March, from Surrey 

 on the 20th, and from Leicestershire, Middlesex, Somerset, 

 C^heshire and Lancashire during the first three weeks of April. 

 There may possibly have been a small immigration into 

 Sussex, Surrey and Lincolnshire between the 21st and the 23rd. 

 From the 28th of April onwards all the records come from 

 Wales and Cheshire, with the exception of one bird taken at 

 St. Catherine's light on the 4th/5th of May, two seen in 

 Suffolk on the 12th of May, and single birds in Northampton- 

 shire on the 9th and 16th and in Yorkshire on the 22nd. 

 There appears to have been an increase between the 25th 

 of April and the 1st of May and again between the 14th and 

 15th of May in Wales and Cheshire, but no definite movements 

 could be traced. 



Chronological Summary of the Records. 



March 10th. 



Bi'econ. 



14th. 



Sussex. 



18th. 



Brecon. 



