PIED WAGTAIL. 
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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 Gowharrow 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 large 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.”** 
PIED WAGTAIL *{Motac,illa Lotov ^ Rennie.) 
Motacilla alba, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 331. 11. — Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 960. sp. 11 Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2. p. 501. sp. 1. and var. B. and Y. — Raii, 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. — Ib. pi. Enl. 652. f. 1. male in spring plumage. — Bergeronette grise, Temm. 
Man. d’Orn. 1. p. 255. — Weise Bachstelze, Meygr, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. p. 216. 
.-—Ib. Vbg. 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. — Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3.t. 95. — Wale. Syn. 
2. t. '226. — Mont. 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. 74. — Selbr^, pi. 49. 
fig. l.p. 208. 
Provincial . — Pied Wagtail. Black and White Wagtail. Dish-washer. 
W asher- woman. 
It being manifestly absurd to name this the white Wagtail, as Lin- 
naeus does, I have changed the specific to Lotov., 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. 
* Mag. of Nat. Hist. i. 130. 
