IM preceding rart oi this JUeicnption will appear with the Plate in the following Number, 



are continually roufed by the motions of thofe animals ; 

 its flight is remarkably undulating, and is confiderably ac- 

 celerated by the continued jerkins of its tail ; it makes but 

 fhort flights at one time. 



During the breeding feafon it has a very pretty note, by 

 which its retreat is difcovered ; it is one of thofe birds which 

 purfue the hawk tribe, and on the appearance of which it 

 gives the alarm by loud and repeated fcreams. It is in the 

 habit of rolling in the duft, immediately after which it goes 

 into the water, and in a few minutes comes out very clean ; 

 it is infefted by an infect fimilar to that which attacks the 

 fwallow, and we have no doubt but its rolling in the duft and 

 warning, affifts in removing it ; in diflecling a Wagtail lately, 

 one of thefe infefts crawled on the hand, to which it adhered 

 fo firmly, that we were under the neceffity of ufing the point 

 of the knife to remove it. 



