YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



MOT AC ILL A RAH (Bonap.). 



Budytes ltayi, Buna//. Comp. List B. Eur. & N. Am. p. 18 



(1838) ; Macff. ii. p. 212. 

 Motacilla rayi, Hewitson, i. p. 170. 



Motacilla raii, Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 564; Dresser, hi. p. 277. 

 Bergeronnetle a tetejaune, French ; Pepita real, Spanish. 



This species or race is, in Europe, the western repre- 

 sentative of M. fiava, from which it only differs in the 

 colour of the head. The present bird is a common 

 summer visitor to most parts of England, rare in the 

 extreme north of Scotland, and stated by several authors 

 to have been only found breeding in Ireland on the shores 

 of Lough Neagh ; to this statement, however, I demur, 

 as I met with a nest containing ego-s on the western 



O DO 



shore of Lough Corrib in the summer of 1853, on which 

 occasion I clearly identified both of the parent birds. 



