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Yellow Wagtail, vol. i. p. 221. 
In addition to wliat has been stated of this bird about Toome, at the 
north-west of Lough Neagh, it may here be mentioned that Mr. Temple- 
ton, on the 3rd of June, 1812, saw two of them on the shores of Ram’s 
Island, that from his description must have been adult males. They 
are common in summer on part of the southern shores of that lake, as 
first observed by the Rev. G. Robinson, of Tartaraghan rectory. Many 
were seen by that gentleman, in the summer and autumn of 1849, about 
Miltown and Maghery ; but none were observed more than about a 
mile and a half inland from the lake. He has frequently remarked the 
male bird when approaching the female, fanning its tail along the ground, 
like a pigeon. One day in August, eighteen old and young birds were 
reckoned by him during a drive of two miles along the borders of the 
lake. Early in September they had all departed. 
April 13, 1850. The Rev. G. Robinson first saw these birds for 
the season about Lough Neagh, when seven came under his notice as 
he drove along the road. 
May 4, 1850. I went, with Mr. J. R. Garrett and Mr. Darragh, to 
Mr. Robinson’s, that he might accompany us to the wagtails’ beat, 
and on Derry warragh island we saw not less than forty of them. 
In one little piece of pasture three pair appeared within twenty-five 
yards of each other, and three or four birds were frequently seen only 
a few feet apart on the ground, or on wing, at the same moment. The 
places they frequented were various in character. Sometimes they ap- 
peared about the cattle, close to their heads or feet, but more were seen 
away from them on the drier pasture. Some were in moist, natural 
ground, from which many shrubby willows grew spontaneously to the 
height of about ten feet. On these they often alighted, and frequently 
rose a short way into the air above them in pursuit of flies. Their 
attitudes, when they so far expanded the tail as to exhibit the black 
central and pure white marginal feathers, rendered their appearance 
very beautiful. They were also seen on tall trees. Some were on 
the grassy or stony margin of the island, near the edge of the lake. 
They were everywhere very tame. Their call-note — quite different from 
that of the pied and the grey wagtails — was as described by Yarrell, 
but occasionally they uttered the one note only. Their nests were 
said to be often found upon the ground in arable fields. Mr. Robinson 
had seen these birds commonly in the fields within a mile of the lake. 
