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OF BIRDS 7 | lM 
and Bes of plants and Guia roots on the out- 
fide, lined with feathers, or horfehair within ; and 
- More neatly conftructed than that of the white 
| Wagtail. They lay feven or eight egos, of a 
dirty white, {potted with yellow. After the hay 
- harveft, the parent leads them amongft flocks of 
-theep. Then they live on flies, and gnats. Whilft 
4 they,frequent the water fide, they feed on worms ; 
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fometimes they {wallow feeds, and even beetles — 
have been found in their flomach.. 
The tail of this bird is longer than its body ; and 
like the white Wagtail it frequents rivulets with 
Pebbly beds, perching upon the ftones; though — 
-fome ftay ail winter, yet many feem to migrate, for 
they are not feen in fuch numbers then, as in 
the autumn among{t flocks of fheep. | | 
“Tt migrates in the north of England, but cone 
Pinas in Hampfhire all the year. 
This laft {pecies is called in. France ie Ber- 
- eronette, from their habit of frequenting flocks 
of ftheep; they follow them in the helds, mix 
With them as they graze, and perch occafionall ly 
0n their backs, They. feem fearlefs of, and fa- 
miliar with the fhepherd, flying before him, and 
in fome countries aét the part of a fentinel, by 
——-Apptiling him of the approach of the wolf or- of 
oe of prey. 
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