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7th, less; 8th, in afternoon, many; 21st, some; 25th, great 

 many. 



Motacilla alba, White Wagtail. — Heligoland, Aug. 23rd, 

 pretty many young ; Sept. 30th, some ; Oct. 3rd, old birds. 



M. lugubris, Pied Wagtail. — Spring : Farn l.h., March 8th, a 

 pair. Whitby l.h., 16th, the first seen, at daylight. Tees l.v., 

 24th, four to N.W. Coquet l.h., April 6th, a pair. Autumn : 

 Spurn, Sept. 1st, flock of about sixty. Heligoland, Oct. 16th, one. 



M. melanope, Grey Wagtail. — Thanet, Aug. 29th, first seen. 

 Spurn, a few during September. Great Cotes, Sept. 11th, young 

 birds swarming in bean-fields ;* 27th, some. October, old birds 

 very plentiful. 



M. flava, Blue-headed Yellow Wagtail. — Thanet, Aug. 16th, 

 5 p.m., one. Heligoland, Aug. 21st, a few for some days past, 

 and at intervals to the end of the month ; immense numbers 

 between the 10th and 15th of September ; 16th to 18th, less ; 

 and afterwards still less up to the 30th. 



Anthus pratensis, Meadow Pipit. — Spring : Farn l.h., April 

 2nd, 10 a.m. to noon, S.S.E., flocks going west. Autumn: Cley, 

 Norfolk, Sept. 17th, great arrival. Spurn and North-east 

 Lincolnshire, 23rd to 26th, immense numbers, turnip and 

 potato fields crowded. Farn l.h., Dec. 14th, large flock to 

 S.W. Heligoland, Sept. 4th, hundreds of thousands, all in great 

 haste, the rest of the month a great many each day ; very large 

 number in October, from the 1st to the 12th, and then less up 

 to the 25th ; the last on Nov. 16th. 



A. cervinas, Eed-throated Pipit. — Heligoland, Sept. 15th, 

 two or three seen and heard by C. Aiickens, the Heligoland 

 birdstuffer ; 16th, one shot ; 18th, one shot, a young bird, 

 another heard ; 19th, two shot, more seen ; 20th, three seen ; 

 Sept. 30th and Oct. 1st and 12th, one each day. 



A, trivialis, Tree Pipit. — Spurn, Aug. 20th to Sept. 10th, 

 common. Thanet, Sept. 3rd to 14th. Heligoland, Aug. 16th, 

 a few, the first, and at intervals to end of month ; from Sept. 4th 



* Bean-fields near the coast are always a very favourite haunt in the 

 early autumn of the soft-billed insect-feeders. I have frequently at this 

 season found such places swarming with various Warblers, Wagtails, and 

 Pipits, the situation affording the very best cover as well as an abundance 

 of food in the numerous insects and their larvae which infest the bean plant 

 in its latter growth. 



