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Tie WHITE WAGT APL 
The bill, head, neck, chie and besa are black. The 
- forehead, cheeks, and fides. of the neck are white, the two 
- Suter tail Pothots obliquely marked with white. : 
Tt Gadus ir rope, is migratory, appears early 
in the fpring, frequenting villages, and conftantly 
fining its tail, 
eT ie Swedifh farmers fay, when you fee the 
- Wagtil return, you may put your fheep into the 
fields ; when you fee the wheat-ear, you may fow 
Your et So ufeful is the information we may 
“acquire, by obferving the animal creation. In- 
England the Wagtail continues all the year, but 
in the winter it moves ‘from the North to the 
— South, 
The Wagtail is a very {mall bird, but his long 
tail makes him appear much larger than he really is. 
- As he flies he fpreads his tail, which is a confider= 
able fupport, and enables him to turn, to apn 
to rife and fall in the air. , 
 Wagtails run lightly along the ground, moving 
very nimbly, clofe to the edge of the water ;-and 
_ fometimes they juft ftep into the little wave, 
_ formed by the water as it fpreads on the fhore; 
~ but they moft frequently flutter upon the dams of 
nil one or frequent the fides of fhallow ftreams, 
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