Title: An illustrated manual of British birds
Identifier: cu31924000047815 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, Gurney and Jackson
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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MOTACILLID/E. 129
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THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. MoTACiLLA RAii (Bonapartc). The Yellow Wagtail is a regular summer-visitor to the British Islands, arriving early in April, and leaving again in September. In Cornwall and Devon it is chiefly seen on migration, though it nests in the latter; but from Somersetshire onwards, it is generally distributed throughout England as a breeding-species in wet meadows and other suitable situations. In Wales it is local, and chiefly noticed on migration. In Scotland it has nested as far as Perthshire, and perhaps up to the south-west of the Great Glen, but is rarely found beyond the latter; while a wanderer has been obtained in North Ronay, Outer Hebrides, and the bird is said to have occurred in the Shetlands. In Ireland it breeds regularly about Lough Neagh, in Ulster, as well as on Loughs Corrib, Mask and Carra, in Connaught; the nest has also been obtained once near Dublin, where the species occurs on migration, as it has done in CO. Wexford (Ussher). Although the Yellow Wagtail has occurred on Heligoland, Borkum, and the coast of Holland, it is only west of Belgium that it is known as a regular visitor, while even in the north of France the Blue-headed Wagtail prevails in the breeding-season as far as Dieppe. Westward our Yellow Wagtail is said to predominate; and on passage it visits the south of France and both sides of the Iberian Peninsula with great regularity, though only of rare and M

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