HAVE OCCURRED IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS IN 1849 . 
due time, and the young partially reared by their foster parents. 
The circumstances above detailed induced me to seek for others in 
the same districts, and I met with a second pair the next day at 
Elliot’s Mill, about two miles and a half higher up the stream. I 
farther ascertained, that this species was not uncommon as a sum- 
mer resident, and that the yellow Wagtail, Budytes flova , so uni- 
versally dispersed over the country, was seldom or ever seen there. 
UPUPA EPOPS. 
A specimen was killed near Budle Bay in April last, and had been 
observed for two or three days before its capture. It proved to be a 
female, and is now in the collection of W. Broderick, Esq., Belford. 
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