GEE Y-l r EA DED WAGTAIL.
BLUB-HBADBD WAGTAIL. YKI.LOW WAGTAIL,
Molaaifa neglect a, GOULD. JBNYNS.
Mo/a, ilia JUtva, LINN.EIS. TEMMINCK.
Budytee flam, PRIMCI OF MUSIONANO.
Motaciila—A Wagtail. Neglecta—Neglected.
T h e Grey-headed Wagtail is plentiful throughout the central parts
of Europe—Germany, France, and Holland; and is found also in
Norway, Sweden, and Scandinavia generally, Denmark, Lapland, and
other count lies. It occurs likewise in Asia, in India, among the
Himalaya Mountains, and in Japan, as also in Africa.
It was discriminated from our common yellow one by Mr. Gould,
and since then it has occurred in several instances. A pair were
shot bv John Gatcombe, Esq., of Wyndham Place, Plymouth, as he
ha-- informed me. in a large marsh at Lair a, near that town, May
1st., 1850, and to him I am very much indebted for excellent coloured
drawing! of both specimens: from one of these the plate is taken.
In May, 1848, several were procured, and many more seen, as
Edward Hearle Rodd, Esq., has recorded, in the neighbourhood of
Penzance and Marazion, in Cornwall; one was killed near Melbourne,
in Derbyshire, November 23rd., 1846. A pair were also shot at
Dover, near the harbour, in July, 1851, which Mr. Chaffcy, of Doddington,
has written me word of.
One was shot by Mr. Henry Douhleday, of Epping, in October,
1834, on Walton cliff, near Colchester, Essex; another was seen at
the same time. On the 2nd. of May, 1836, another, a male bird in
adult plumage, was shot by Mr. Hoy, in the parish of Stoke Nay-
Land, Suffolk. One of a pair which were seen was shot in the same
month of the same year, near Newcastle, in Northumberland; and
another, also a male, was taken in April, 1837, near Finsbury,
London.