PIED WAGTAIL— GREY WAGTAIL. 
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45. Motacilla lugubris. Pied Wagtail. 
Dish-Washer. Water-Wagtail. Molly. 
A common resident in all parts. 
The numbers of this, our commonest wagtail, are 
greatly augmented at the seasons of migration, but during 
the winter there is certainly a diminution in their numbers. 
Munn found a nest this year (1904) built inside a 
blackbird's, from which a brood of young blackbirds had 
already flown. 
46. Motacilla melanope. Grey Wagtail. 
A local resident, largely reinforced in winter. 
Our county is not particularly well-suited to this 
beautiful bird, but its nest has been found in the following 
localities : Fordingbridge (Yarrell), Romsey (Medley), 
Southwick and the Iron Mills, near Fareham (Stares), near 
Brambridge (Sutton Davies), Avington (Bowdler Sharpe), 
Hurstbourne and Shawford (Munn), Alton (Kelsall). 
Gilbert White evidently included this under the name 
of yellow wagtail when he wrote in his thirteenth Letter to 
Pennant that yellow wagtails were to be seen both summer 
and winter. 
In the Observations on Birds he speaks of " wagtails, 
white and gray,"" attending upon cattle, but there is no 
evidence that he gave the name to the yellow-breasted 
species which now bears it. 
We have never noticed this species attending upon » 
cattle, though Motacilla raii does. 
