I FIND that Mr. H. G. Alexander's Chart of Bird-Song (antea, Vol. XXIX, p. 194) has no record of the song of the Grey Wagtail (Motacilla c. cinerea) between mid-January and mid-March. The report of a song which I heard at 5.20 p.m. on February 24th, 1938, may therefore be of interest. Throughout the winter I have been watching a young Grey Wagtail which haunts a deep ditch with running water and o...

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