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THE GEEY WAGTAIL {MotaciUa mekinope). 



Grey Wagtails arrived at their winter-quarters in the eastern and 

 southern counties in mid-September : first arrivals were reported from 

 Surrey on the 11th, from E. Kent and Sussex on the 16th, and from 

 Bedfordshire and W. Kent on the 18th, after which date they were 

 numerous in their winter-quarters in Kent, although migrants were 

 apparently still passing through up till the 10th of October. Winter- 

 residents were reported as having arrived in Leicestershire at the end of 

 September, but were not reported from the Isle of Man until the 17th 

 of October, nor from Somerset until the 26th. 



A single bird arrived on the Isle of May on the 2Ist of September and 

 one was seen on southward passage on the S. Yorkshire coast as late a.s 

 the 19th of October. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL {MotaciUa rail). 



The first indication of the autumn-migration was a straggling south- 

 ward movement along the Lancashire coast, which commenced on the 

 11th of August. During the next twelve days single birds were noticed 

 passing in W. Kent, and after the middle of the month a gradual and 

 considerable increase was noted in E. Kent. A movement to the east 

 was noticed in the New Forest district of Hampshire on the 19th, and 

 records were received of the assemblage of considerable tlocL's in Stafford- 

 shire, Shropshire, Somerset and S. Devon between the 24:th and 30th ; 

 the Shropshire birds appear to have departed on the 3Ist, while a 

 considerable number seem to have left Somerset on the same day, 

 though no diminution was noticed in S. Staffordshire until the 17th of 

 September. Similar Hocking was observed in Cheshire on the 4th 

 of September and in mid-Staffordshire on the 5th, on which date the 

 Chesliire birds departed. Passing birds were noted in Shropshire on 

 various dates up to the loth, in Somerset daily up to the 14th ; a single 

 bird was taken at the S. Bishop Light (Pembroke) on the 15th/16th, 

 and a considerable number passed through S. Staffordshire on the 20th, 

 followed by a few more on the 28th and 29th. 



On the east coast large numbers were seen passing in S.E. Suffolk on 

 the 24th, and a single one as late as the 20th on the S. coast of Y'ork- 

 shire. In Bedfordshire they were still numerous on the 19th. 



On the south coast the flocks which assembled in S. Devon at the end 

 of August appear to have left on the 3rd of September, considerable 

 flocks were seen on the Dorset coast from the 2nd to the 15th, and the 

 species was plentiful in E. Kent up to the 8th. Emigration evidently 

 took place from the whole of the south coast at intervals throughout the 

 month, the greatest numbers undoubtedly leaving between the 13th and 

 18th, after which date only stragglers remained and nearly all these left 

 the country from the coast of Kent. 



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