GRAY-IIEADED WAGTAIL. 
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decided change exhibited as in the genus Motacilla, 
yet the plumage at the commencement of the love 
season exhibits a degree of brilliancy not at other 
times seen. 
The second species of British Yellow Wagtail, 
which can only yet claim the rank of an occasional 
visitant, is, 
The Gray-headed Wagtail — Budytes 
neglecta. — Gray-headed Wagtail — Motacilla 
neglecta, Gould. — Motacilla Jlava, Linn. Temm. 
— As we previously noticed, Mr Gould first 
called the attention of British ornithologists to 
the confusion of the synon'unes and the differences 
between the plumage and proportions of this 
bird and the preceding; and attention being 
turned to the point, the Gray-headed Wagtail 
was discovered as a straggler in our own islands. 
The first British specimen which is recorded 
was obtained in October, on Walton Cliffs, near 
Colchester by Mr Henry Doubleday ; since that 
specimens have been occasionally shot in England, 
ranging as far north as the vicinity of Newcastle. 
In Scotland, the authority for the occurrence 
rests on two instances brought before the Wer- 
nerian Society of Edinburgh ; but its frequency 
evidently decreases northward. In Ireland, at 
this date, it has not been observed. On the 
Continent it reaches the northern countries, Nor- 
way, Sweden, and Scandinavia. Out of Europe, 
