A WAGTAIL CHIRPED IN LONDON
London has returned to her former self. All is well again. This important news is conveyed by an obscure item, tucked away in the •back pages of The Times, announcing the "activities of the wagtail in Piccadilly." It ■ seems that a Mr. Kendall B. Harriss has seen a grey water wagtail in Burlington Arcade, the West End's (glittei^ng* sh'ow '.cehtre for jewellery, art hanging, and expensive clothing. Under the heading, "The Course of Nature," Britain 's greatest newspaper has solemnly chronicled how, to Mr. Harriss anyway, the wagtail "seemed to he quite out of place, even though it hacl found some approach to its natural haunts in ■ the halfempty storage tank it was inspecting." The Times is confident, however. that more w.ill soon he about. It continues: "The wagtail most likely to he met with in Burlington Arcade is, of course, the pied wagtail, one of the half-dozen or so species of w'ild birds which ihave a 'residential qualification.' outside the parira in central London."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5296, 8 January 1947, Page 3
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170A WAGTAIL CHIRPED IN LONDON Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5296, 8 January 1947, Page 3
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