. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . UJ IOh-- Qhi BLACK-AND-WHITE BIRDS. 23 and under parts white; sides and flanks gray after autumn moult; always gray infemale and marked irregularly with some black. Billand legs black. Resident. Eggs.—4—6, grayish-white, spotted all over withash-colour beneath warmer brown speckles ; 8 >< 6inch (plate 121). Nest.—Of dry grass, rootlets, and moss, lined withhair and feathers, and placed in a niche of a rock,wall, or bank, or in any similar recess in thatch, ora pile of wood or turf. From the above descripti
. British birds & their eggs : with a new method of identification . UJ IOh-- Qhi BLACK-AND-WHITE BIRDS. 23 and under parts white; sides and flanks gray after autumn moult; always gray infemale and marked irregularly with some black. Billand legs black. Resident. Eggs.—4—6, grayish-white, spotted all over withash-colour beneath warmer brown speckles ; 8 >< 6inch (plate 121). Nest.—Of dry grass, rootlets, and moss, lined withhair and feathers, and placed in a niche of a rock,wall, or bank, or in any similar recess in thatch, ora pile of wood or turf. From the above description it will be seen thatthe plumage of the Pied Wagtail is entirely blackand white, and that the markings are distributed ina highly variegated pattern. In summer the in-tensity of the contrast is such aS; to make the PiedWagtail the most startlingly conspicuous of all thesmaller birds. It is almost excltisively a ground-bird, frequenting the water-side and the adjoiningmeadows, where it often attends the cattle for thesake of the insects they dist
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