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wing-coverts while the female is paler on these parts than 
IS the female Pied Wagtail. The young can be distinguished 
by the grey rump and upper tail-coverts. 
Writing of the avifauna of the Solway area in 1900 Mr 
R. Service says : " Of late years this species has put'in a 
tolerably regular appearance during the vernal migration. 
It seems to have been first noticed here about 1880 "* 
Later he states : " Within recent years it has been found 
that a migration flight hne of the White Wagtail is along the 
west coast of England and Scotland, passing about tt 
atter end of March, and proceeding by some Lrt cut up 
the west of our islands, so as perhaps to avoid the east 
wind, and on to the northern parts of Scandinavia "f Z 
Apri 14th, 1908, I watched one of these birds at close 
quarters at Kirkland Station (Glencaim), as it ran about 
the furrows of a ploughed field, seeking for insects. 
l£l "^^'f '"^ ^"""^ ^"'^^i^^ April 13th, 
Sail Lr T ''''"^ ^ f ^* ^ "^^'^ '^"'^^'fi^d White 
Wagtail here. I was much interested last week when a 
railway surface-man came to me about a ' queer ' Wagtail 
oAhtZl '^""^^ ^''^^P' ^'^t inclusion 
^ Z^Z^^J'l'^'''' ^'"'''-^'^ are 
Mr' Tset'2.''^*' ''"^ "^'^ ^* MaxweUtown Loch by 
MavTs^ovtf ' "^'^ ^^-^ - Nith near 
1902. May 10th, observed at Maxwelltown.8 
1903. April 5th, a male seen at Four Mile House.|| 
* Tran,. D. and G. Nat. Hut. Soc, November 16th, 1900 
t Op. cit., April 20th, 1905. 
t Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1902, p. 77. 
§ Op. cit., 1903, p. 144. 
II Op. cit., 1904, p. 147. 
