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hood, though he was unsuccessful in his repeated endeavours 
to find it.” White of Selborne considered it a winter visitor 
in Hampshire ; but it also occasionally remains in that coun- 
ty in summer. I have been favoured with a communication 
from Mr. James Rawlance of Fordingbridge, received by 
the hands of Dr. Thackeray, stating that the Grey Wagtail 
reared its young on a farm at Fordingbridge, in the summer 
of 1836: and Mr. J oseph Clark of Saffron Walden, who is 
well acquainted with birds, saw this same species in the 
breeding-season when on a visit near Stockbridge. This 
part of Hampshire, it will be remembered, is intersected by 
various excellent trout streams running through rich mea- 
dows. Montagu, in the Supplement to his Ornithological 
Dictionary, appears to have become aware “ that in a few 
local instances the grey species had been known to breed in 
the south of England; and Mr. Turton and Dr. Edward 
Moore are good authorities for this bird having bred ocea- 
sionally in Devonshire. 
Mr. Couch of Polperro, who, with his usual kindness, has 
supplied me with extensive notes on the Birds of Cornwall, 
says of the Grey Wagtail—abundant in winter ; and within 
a few years, I have known some pairs remain with us and 
breed. Robert Slaney, Esq., says of this bird in Shropshire, 
“it visits us in autumn, remains during winter about our 
warm spring heads, and leaves us in spring for the north.” 
In North Wales, according to Mr. Eyton, it is also a winter 
_ visitor ; but in Lancashire and Cumberland this bird is not 
only found all the summer, producing its young, but a few 
remain during winter. 
Mr. Thompson says the Grey Wagtail is extensively, but 
not universally, distributed over Ireland; and, like the 
Pied Wagtail, is permanently resident throughout the 
country. The stomach of one examined by this gentleman 
