
eh THE NATURAL HISTORY 
~ At Batr in Staffordthite, a Water Wactail 
that frequented a houfe, by being occafionally fed 
with crumbs and pieces of meat cut very fmall, 
grew tame, and continued there the whole of the. 
winter, for feveral years ; he frequently flew upon | 
the window cills to fearch for dead flies, which 
fometimes fell from the joints and crevices upon 
opening the window, 
‘Tue YELLOW: WAGTAILy 
Ewe baat and Romach are yellow, the two outer tail feas 
thers obliquely freaked with white, the throat is fpotted with 
black in the male,.the crown and-upper part of the boat 
are of an olive green, 
In the winter, the yellow Wagtail, when the 
common Wagtail is gone, approaches villages, and 
feeksits food by flreams of water, that are not frozen, 
and fhelters itfelf under the banks of rivulets: In 
that dreary feafon, if the cold be not extreme, its 
gentle warbling is heard 3 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 {pring the yel- 
low Wagtail makes its neft in meadows, and fome- 
times in copfes, at the root of a tree, near a rie 
 -vulet, and in cornfields. The neft is placed upon — 
the groin, and built with dry grafs, or mofs, 
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