. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . en on April the 27th, near a slagheap by the Tees side, and a week later it was joined by afemale. The pair were kept under observation up to theend of June, when they were accompanied by five young notlong out of the nest. The slag heaps of Cleveland are strong-holds of the Pied species, and there seems no reason why someof the White Wagtails which are noticed every year onmigration should not remain to breed. 1 The date of its arrival at Teesmouth in 1900 was May the6th ; in 1901 April the 9th ; and on the
. The birds of Yorkshire : being a historical account of the avi-fauna of the County . en on April the 27th, near a slagheap by the Tees side, and a week later it was joined by afemale. The pair were kept under observation up to theend of June, when they were accompanied by five young notlong out of the nest. The slag heaps of Cleveland are strong-holds of the Pied species, and there seems no reason why someof the White Wagtails which are noticed every year onmigration should not remain to breed. 1 The date of its arrival at Teesmouth in 1900 was May the6th ; in 1901 April the 9th ; and on the 3rd of that monthin 1902, another bird was seen at Ingleby Greenhow inCleveland on the 20th of April; and in 1903 one was notedon the 7th of May on the reclaimed land at Tod to relate, this bird has so far entirely escaped observa-tion during the autumn southward movement.* * Those interested in migration would do well to peruse Mr. Clarkes very concise account of this birds movements, containedin the Report of the British Association Bradford meeting, 125 GREY WAGTAIL. Motacilla melanope {Pallas). Resident ; chiefly confined in summer to the moorland streams ofthe west, from Sheffield northward, and Cleveland ; autumnal migrantin small numbers ; more generally distributed in winter. Willughby, in 1676, was the first to make reference tothe Grey Wagtail as a British bird, thus :— The Grey Wagtail—Motacilla cinerea, an flava altera Aldrov ? . . Thedescription of this bird was communicated to us by of Brignall, near Greta Bridge, in Yorkshire. (Will. Orn. pp. 24, 238.) Thomas Allis, 1844, wrote :— Motacilla boarula.—Grey Wagtail—Frequently breeds on the moorstreams near Sheffield, and visits the neighbourhood of the town inwinter ; the neighbourhood of Luddenden near Halifax has been afavourite breeding place of this species, but the same bird-stuffersthat have persecuted the Pied Flycatcher make a point of shooting allthe males
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