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always get fair play, even where fair play is intended by the 

 master. 



But my particular Fox has been hunted (on paper) long 

 enough, and, not to weary my readers with too long a run, I 

 must now "whip off," and cry "Gone to ground ! who-whoop!" 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DONEGAL. 



By Henry Chichester Hart, B.A., F.L.S. 



(Continued from p. 303.) 



*Pied Wagtail, Motacilla lugubris, Temm. — Resident. Com- 

 moner in summer in the open country, especially near the sea, as 

 along the north coast of Fanet. In winter, comes more inland, 

 to the neighbourhood of dwellings, as about Glenalla, Rath- 

 mullan, &c, and by the lakes in Fanet. 



White Wagtail, M. alba, Linn. — On July 26th I saw five of 

 these birds picking along the sloblands of Trawbreaga Bay, below 

 Carndonagh, in Innishowen. They at once attracted my attention 

 on account of their colour being so dull. They gave me ample 

 time for observation — at least one of them did, and both flight- 

 and call-note appeared to me weaker than that of our common 

 species. The back was dull grey, and the breast below dull white. 

 No black showed conspicuously, except on the upper part of the 

 breast, and only the sides of the throat and tail (in flight) showed 

 pure white, the general colour being dull grey. On this coast 

 there is a great extent of muddy shore bared by the tide, and 

 they made their way in short indeterminate flights out over the 

 slob. It occurred to me at once that perhaps they were young 

 and old of the Pied Wagtail ; but there were none of the ordinary 

 type among them ; nor do I know if the colours agree with those 

 of the young Pied. None of them were more than twenty paces 

 from me, and one or two only four or five, while I jotted down 

 some notes. I think there can be no doubt they were M. alba, 



*Grey Wagtail, M. sulphur ea, Bechst. — Not unfrequent in 

 summer, and returns to breed at the same stations regularly. 

 I have recorded in * The Zoologist' (1878, p. 390) my observation 

 of a congregation of these birds coming to roost together at the 

 reeds of a mountain lake in western Donegal in August: they 

 were probably on their migration. 



