PIED WAGTAIL. 377 



male Pied Flycatcher in the woods near the ferry-house, on the western 

 shore of Windermere, where I saw two males and a female. The 

 female, and one of the males, had paired, and were occupied in con- 

 structing- a nest in a hole, in a decayed pollard ash, on the margin of 

 the lake ; but the vicinity of Ullswater appears to be the most favoured 

 resort of this species, as in walking-, on the 1st of June, from the Water- 

 head to Gowbarrow Old Park, on the western side of the lake, a dis- 

 tance not exceeding- three miles, I saw, without quitting- the carriage- 

 road, five males at five separate stations, which were distinctly marked 

 by larg-e pollard ashes, partially decayed. To these spots the birds 

 were evidently much attached, reluctantly retiring- from them to a 

 short distance, when greatly disturbed, and immediately returning 

 again when the cause of their alarm was removed. This circumstance 

 led me to suppose that they had nests ; and as I did not observe a single 

 female, it is probable that they were engaged in incubating their eggs, 

 or in brooding their young. The males were all in full song, and their 

 notes, which are sometimes, though rarely, delivered on the wing, are 

 pleasing and varied." 1 * 



PIED WAGTAIL \Motacilla Lotor, Rennie.) 



Motacilla alba, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 331. II.— Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 960. sp. 11 Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2. p. 501. sp. 1. and var. B. and Y. — Ran, Syn. p. 75. A. 1.— Will. 



p. 171. t. 42.— Briss. 3. p. 461. 38 La Lavandiere, Buff. Ois. 5. p. 251. 1. 14. 



f. 1. — J6.pl. Enl. 652. f. 1. male in spring plumage. — Bergeronette grise, Temm. 



Man. d'Orn. 1. p. 255 Weise Bachstelze, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 216. 



— Ib. Vog. Deut. Heft. 3. male, female, and young. — White Wagtail, Br. Zool. 



1. No. 142. t. 55.— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 396. B. — Will. (Angl.) p. 237.— Lath. 

 Syn. 4. p. 395. 1 Ib. Supp. p. 178.— Lewins Br. Birds, 3.t. 95 Wale. Syn. 



2. t. 226.— Mori*. Orn. Diet.— Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 8.— Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 



t. p. 194.— Shaw's Zool. 10. p. 545 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 14.—Selby, pi. 49. 



fig. 1. p. 208. 



Provincial. — Pied Wagtail. Black and White Wagtail. Dish-washer. 



Washer-woman. 



It being manifestly absurd to name this the white Wagtail, as Lin- 

 naeus does, I have changed the specific to Lotor, in accordance with an 

 expressive provincial name. * 



The weight of this species is near six drams ; length seven inches 

 and a half ; the bill is black ; irides dusky ; the forehead, cheeks, and 

 side of the neck white ; the back of the head, upper and under side of 

 the neck, chin, and breast black ; back dusky, dashed with cinereous ; 

 in some nearly black ; lower part of the breast and belly white ; quill- 

 feathers dusky, two or three next the body excepted, which are black, 



1 Mag. of Nat. Hist. i. 130. 



