THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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At Barr in Staftbrdfhirc, a Water Wagtail 
that frequented a houfe, by being occafionally fed 
with crumbs and pieces of meat cut very final), 
grew tame, and continued there the whole of the 
winter, for fevcral years ; he frequently flew upon 
the window cills to fearch for dead flies, which 
fometimcs fell from the joints and crevices upon 
opening the window# 
The YELLOW WAGTAIL# 
The bread and (lomacli are yellow, the two outer tail fea¬ 
thers obliquely dreaked with white, the throat is fpotted with 
black in the male, the crown and upper part of the body 
arc of an olive green. 
In the winter, the yellow Wagtail, when the 
common Wagtail is gone, approaches villages, and 
feeks its food by dreams of water,that are not frozen, 
and fhelters itfelf under the banks of rivulets : In 
that dreary feafbn, if the cold be not extreme, its 
gentle warbling is heard ; it is in a low key like 
the autumnal fong of the common Wagtail, and 
very different from the fhrill note which it utters 
when it rifes on its wings. In the fpring the yel¬ 
low Wagtail makes its nefl in meadows, and fome- 
times in copies, at the root of a tree, near a ri¬ 
vulet, and in cornfields. The tied is placed upon 
the ground, and built with dry grafs, or mofs, 
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