414 MOTACILLIDA. 
In the first volume of the Magazine of Zoology and Bo- 
tany, it is recorded that at a meeting of the Wernerian So- 
ciety of Kdinburgh m January 1836, Sir Patrick Walker 
read a notice of the occurrence of the Grey-headed Wagtail 
on the banks of the water of Leith; and in a note on the 
same page, 111, a second example is noticed as having oc- 
curred near Edinburgh. 
The same Magazine has also recorded two other in- 
stances of the occurrence of this species. On the 2nd 
of May 1836, an adult male bird was killed by Mr. Hoy 
in the parish of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. In the same 
month a male specimen was shot a little west of New- 
castle. This bird was with another, probably a female, 
and from the lateness of the season, it is likely they might 
have bred in the neighbourhood. This last communica- 
tion was made by Mr. Albany Hancock. 
Another was taken in April 1837 near F inabiunge a short 
distance north-east of London. From this bird, by the 
kindness of Mr. Joseph Clarke, the figure at the head of this 
subject was taken. This bird was a fine male in his full 
summer dress. 
H. Gurney, Esq. and the Rev. Richard Lubbock have 
recorded one example of this species killed at Sherring- 
ham, in Norfolk. The specimen is in the Norwich Mu- 
seum. 
On the Continent, Mr. Hoy tells me, this species in- 
habits wet springy places in moist meadows: and M. 'Tem- 
minck adds, that it frequents the vicinity of water, and 
the gravelly edges of rivers. As a species it is numerous; 
common over the central part of Europe, and has a very 
extensive northern and eastern geographical range. Some 
British Ornithologists have brought specimens from Swe- 
den and Norway, where it is a summer visitor, appearing 
