50 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
„A Nr.rth Africa, the majority pass on to 
characteristic] 
THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. Moi.cilla rail (Bonaparte). 
A .ummer.vi5itant, but very local. 
^ T • wrote of this species as " very 
^--^-^^'"^'^^V^lhZ tZn, and is particularly 
common on the banks oi ^ ly local in its dis- 
noticed here as bemg a ^d extern y ^^^^.^^ 
tribution .»* A «P^«.««^^^^^ . i^'i834, when a boy of 
Hall, wa« also m his collection t in , ^ ^^^^^ 
sixteen. Dr. Grierson records ^ ^^^y^i,^,, Water,"$ 
WagtaU's nest was shovm to him up ^^^^ 
but'my P-o-^^-'^ttrify CSl that had been 
to suspect that it was the Grey W g ^^^^ ^^^^^^ 
observed. He a^o -^^cor^ m h « ^^^^ 
17th, 1862, that Thomas MaxwdUold ^.^^ ^^^^ 
,are bellow Wagtail on the N^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^.^^^ ^^^^ 
in 1864 : I see ^J^^XT,; -f%oung corn, but it is rare 
about the comers o4f^fi%tgtXiom having a good 
£ro?;irabou^t^^ ^^^-^ 
. Ne«, Sto«. 4cc«. Sco<.. Vol. W.. p. 179^ 
Grierson'B MS. Diarj/, Apnl 24th, 1834. 
