. Our native songsters . pebbly stream, or among someheap of stones, or percliance in a hole which thebird finds in a neighbouring bank, Avhere thegentle murmuring of waters may serve as anaccompaniment to its pleasing song. The eggsare of a yellowish giey tint, with dashes of adarker colour. The Yellow Wagtail* {Motacilla flava) frequentsdowns and open arable lands, and is very similarin its habits to the grey species. It builds on thegTOund, and its eggs are of a pale brown, markedwith a darker hue. It is a migratory bird, arriv-ing here in March; and its song is very sweet. Besides the vari
. Our native songsters . pebbly stream, or among someheap of stones, or percliance in a hole which thebird finds in a neighbouring bank, Avhere thegentle murmuring of waters may serve as anaccompaniment to its pleasing song. The eggsare of a yellowish giey tint, with dashes of adarker colour. The Yellow Wagtail* {Motacilla flava) frequentsdowns and open arable lands, and is very similarin its habits to the grey species. It builds on thegTOund, and its eggs are of a pale brown, markedwith a darker hue. It is a migratory bird, arriv-ing here in March; and its song is very sweet. Besides the various songs of the birds alreadynamed as frequenters of well-watered lands, thecall-notes and chirpings of several others may beheard in such scenes; and the low sweet notes of theBearded Titmouse (Calamoj^hilus hiarmicus) in some * The Yellow Wagtail is six inches and a half in parts pale olive; wing and tail browner; whole underparts, as well as a streak over the eye, brilliant yellow; beak andieet black. K. THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. 129 by Selby, liowever, as having been seen in thesouth of England in the winter only during itssouthern migration. It has two broods each nest is usually placed in some rocky ledgenear the clear pebbly stream, or among someheap of stones, or percliance in a hole which thebird finds in a neighbouring bank, where thegentle murmuring of waters may serve as anaccompaniment to its pleasing song. The eggsare of a yellowish grey tint, with dashes of adarker colour. The Yellow Wagtail* {MotaciUa flava) frequentsdowns and open arable lands, and is very similarin its habits to the grey species. It builds on thegTOund, and its eggs are of a pale brown, markedwith a darker hue. It is a migratory bird, arriv-ing here in March; and its song is very sweet. Besides the various songs of the birds alreadynamed as frequenters of well-watered lands, thecall-notes and chirpings of several others may beheard in such scenes; and the low sweet notes of
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