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of Donegal, a few miles from the city of Londonderry. It has but once been met with by 
William Sinclair, Esq., on the 28th of April, 1833, when a single individual appeared, and on 
that day only, in an oat-field at the Falls. One shot at Finglass, near Dublin, about the 20th of 
April, 1835, has come under my notice in the collection of T. W. Warren, Esq. A second spe- 
cimen, which I have seen at Dublin, was stated to have been shot in the vicinity of the Custom- 
house there in 1837. ‘The species is unknown to my correspondents as visiting the southern 
counties. On the 8th of April, 1841, an old male bird, shot near Belfast, came into my 
possession. A good ornithologist is certain that two Wagtails seen at the shore of the bay near 
that town on the 8th of August, 1846, were of this species. About the Ist of May, 1847, three 
were procured between Portadown and Verner’s Bridge, in the county of Armagh, by the 
Rev. G. Robinson.” 
After leaving England the range of the present species becomes very difficult to define. It 
has not been recorded from Scandinavia or any part of North-eastern Europe, but has been met 
with in Heligoland, though not included by Borggreve in his list of birds found in North 
Germany. Baron von Droste Hiilshoff observed one on the island of Borkum on the 7th May, 
1867; and Mr. van Wickevoort Crommelin informs me that it is occasionally seen on the coast 
of Holland during the spring migration; and it occurs during the two seasons of passage in the 
neighbourhood of Lille, Amiens, and Dunkirk, but has not yet been observed in Central 
Belgium. In France, according to Messrs. Degland and Gerbe, it breeds numerously near 
Dieppe, where J/. flava occurs only on passage; and they add that it nests also, though rarely, 
near Lille, where, on the other hand, 1/7. fava is common, Crespon met with it near Nimes; 
and Messrs. Jaubert and Barthélemy-Lapommeraye record it from Provence as occurring only in 
the autumn; but Baron J. W. von Miiller states (J. f. O. 1856, p. 222) that it is not uncommon 
in April in the marshes of the Camargue, and that in October it is met with sparingly on 
passage. It is said to occur in Portugal, where, however, it is rare, and is also met with in 
Spain. Dr. A. KE. Brehm states (Allg. deutsch. naturh. Zeit. iii. p. 458) that he first saw speci- 
mens exposed for sale in the Barcelona market late in April, and in May the following year he 
shot seven specimens near Madrid. Mr. Howard Saunders possesses examples of this species 
from Malaga and Valencia; but Colonel Irby says he never met with it on either side of the 
Straits of Gibraltar. In Italy it is extremely rare; for Count Salvadori states that he only knows 
of one instance of its occurrence, a specimen having been obtained in Liguria by Calvi in April 
1821. Mr.C. A. Wright also records (Ibis, 1870, p. 491) the occurrence of a specimen at Malta 
in the spring of 1868. I find no notice of its occurrence in Southern Germany, Greece, or 
Turkey; but it is certainly met with in Southern Russia, as specimens are from time to time sent 
from the Southern Volga under the name of Motacilla campestris, a name which certainly does 
not belong to the present species, though it is applied to it by many continental authors. I 
possess two specimens from Southern Russia which, though one has the yellow on the head 
rather fully developed, are certainly specifically identical with our British bird. It is not, how- 
ever, recorded from Asia Minor or Palestine, nor has it been met with in North-east Africa; but 
it occurs in North-west Africa, being, according to Loche, an accidental visitant in Algeria; and 
I possess a specimen collected at Tangier by Olcese, where it must be of rare occurrence, as 
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