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WAGTAIL. 



very quick, leaping up frequently after the flies, &c. which are 

 too high for their catching on the ground. 



It is a fpecies very far fpread, being found throughout the 

 whole of the old continent *. It is mentioned by authors as 

 migratory for the moft part j with us it Ihifts its quarters to the 

 fouth, as the winter approaches, and I believe part of them mi- 

 grate, as I do not recoiled feeing fo many in winter as the 

 fummer feafon. In Scotland, and in the north of England, fcarce 

 ever feen in the hard weather. 



This, and others of this clafs, are called, both by the French 

 and ourfelves, Wajher-women, or Di/b-wajbers, 



In the Leverian Mufeum is a fine variety ; white, except the 

 hind parts, which are yellowifh. 



Var. A. 

 COLLARED W. 



Description. 



Place. 



S 



La Bergeronette a Collier de l'lfle de Lucon, Son. Voy. p. 61. t. 29.. 



Lev. Muf, 



I Z E of our Wagtail. Bill black : irides hazel : forehead, 

 as far as the crown, round the bill, and the cheeks and throat, 

 are white : hind part of the head and neck, the lower part of the 

 neck before, and breaft, black : the back is aflvcolour : acrofs 

 the wing is an oblique bar of white, beginning at the baftard 

 wino- : the quills are black, edged with white ; the outer oaes 

 wholly black : the tail is black, except the two outer feathers, 

 which are white : legs black. 



Inhabits the ifland of Lu$onia. I have alio feen one which 

 came from Kamtfchatka, now in the pofleffion of Sir Jofeph 

 Banks. 



* I have met with this more than once in Chlntft drawings. 



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