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but not more distant from it in this quarter. Derrywarragli should be 

 a good locality for the pled wagtail, but we did not observe one on it, 

 in the course of three hours, nor did a grey wagtail appear anywhere 

 to-day ; the island, however, is not a place where we should expect to 

 see the latter, — no little rivulet, &c., there. The stomachs of five of 

 the yellow wagtails, procured as specimens, were filled with perfect 

 insects, Diptera, CoUoptera, and a Notojieda, but nearly all were 

 " flies." 



About the 1st of August, 1849, a few yellow wagtails, perhaps one 

 family, were in company with a number of pied wagtails at the Kinne- 

 gar, Belfast Bay. A mile southward of this place one was observed 

 on the 25th of July, 1850, and two following days. On the 28th, an 

 old female and a young bird were found at the same place, and ad- 

 mitted of an approach within a few yards ; on the 29th, three or four 

 appeared here. On the 3rd of August one was seen among a flock of 

 pied wagtails on the sands at the Kinnegar. All of these were ob- 

 served by Mr. J. R, Garrett, and some of them by myself. 



May 15, 1849. A yellow wagtail was seen on the banks of the 

 Dodder, near Dublin.* 



Bohemian Waxwing, vol. i. p. 229. 



We have no record of these birds having distributed themselves so 

 extensively over the British Islands as they did in the winter of 1849- 

 50. Over England they were scattered, and across the breadth of 

 Scotland, from the German Ocean to the Atlantic. In the ' Zoolo- 

 gist ' for 1850, the particulars of their occurrence in those countries 

 will be found. 



About the same period, they were widely dispersed over Ireland, 

 even to the most south-western county, — Kerry. At Miltovvn there, 

 two were seen towards the end of December, and one of them shot. 

 Three or four appeared a few miles to the south-east of Cork, early in 

 January, one of which came into the possession of Dr. J. E. Harvey. 

 On the 17th of this month, an adult male having five waxen plume- 

 lets in each wing, was shot at the White Rock quarry, Belfast moun- 

 tains ; its stomach was wholly filled with very small fruit of a species 

 of wild-rose. About the same time, several were seen, and one of 

 them killed, near Ballymena, county of Antrim. One, received by Mr. 



♦ Mr. Watters. 



