. An illustrated manual of British birds . k brown, tipped with yellowish-white, forming a doublebar; secondaries margined with the same colour; quills dark brown;tail-feathers blackish-brown, except the two outer pairs, which arewhite with black edges to the inner webs ; chin and a line below thelores white ; throat, breast and tail-coverts bright gamboge-yellow ;bill, legs and feet black. Length 6-25 in. ; wing 3-2 in. Thefemale is rather shorter : the head has a more olive tint, and theyellow of the under parts is less pronounced. In autumn both sexesacquire an olive-brown tinge. The young
. An illustrated manual of British birds . k brown, tipped with yellowish-white, forming a doublebar; secondaries margined with the same colour; quills dark brown;tail-feathers blackish-brown, except the two outer pairs, which arewhite with black edges to the inner webs ; chin and a line below thelores white ; throat, breast and tail-coverts bright gamboge-yellow ;bill, legs and feet black. Length 6-25 in. ; wing 3-2 in. Thefemale is rather shorter : the head has a more olive tint, and theyellow of the under parts is less pronounced. In autumn both sexesacquire an olive-brown tinge. The young are greenish-brown above,with a rough V-shaped line of brown spots from the nape to the breast,and the under parts are only pale yellow ; but the white eye-stripewhich serves to distinguish typical examples of this species fromour Yellow Wagtail is always present. Young males often displayin their first spring some dark mottlings on the throat, grey patcheson the head, and a considerable amount of yellow on the shoulders. THE YELLOW RAii (Bonai)arte). The Yellow Wagtail is a regular summer-visitor to the BritishIslands, arriving early in April, and leaving again in September. InCornwall and Devon it is usually seen on migration ; but fromSomersetshire onwards, it is generally distributed as a breeding speciesthroughout England and Wales, in suitable localities. In Scotlandit is locally distributed as far north as the Firths of Forth and Clyde,and it is said to breed in Inverness- and Aberdeenshire ; butrecent observers have failed to verify its reported occurrences inSutherlandshire, the Orkneys, or the Shetlands. To Ireland it isa summer-visitor in small numbers, but is very local ; the districtabout Lough Neagh, and the vicinity of Dublin, being the onlyparts in which it is known to breed up to the present time. Although the Yellow Wagtail has been obtained as a straggler onHeligoland, Eorkuni, and the coast of Holland, it is only west-wa
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