362 YELLOW WAGTAIL. Class IL 



black crelcent : tlie bread and belly are white : the 

 quil-feathers are dufky : the coverts black tipt 

 and edged with white. The tail is very long, and 

 always in motion. The exterior feather on each 

 fide is white : the lower part of the inner web ex- 

 cepted, which is dufky ; the others black : the 

 bill, infide of the mouth, and the legs, are black. 

 The back claw very long. 



143. Yel- 

 low Wag- 

 tail. 



Sufurada. Belon ohf. IF. 

 Motacilla flava (Gale WafTar- 



fteltz). Gcfner av. 6\'i. 

 Aldr. a=v. II. 323. 

 Wil, orn. 238. 

 Ran fyn. av. 75. 

 Ed-zv. a'v. 258. The Male. 

 Codatremola. Zinan. 51. 

 La Bergeronette du Prin- 

 temps, Motacilla verna. 



Brijfonav. III. 468. Pi 



enl 28. f 1. 

 Motacilla flava. Lin.fyft. 331. 

 Gelb - brtiftige Bachfteltze. 



Frifch, 1-23. 

 Faun. Suec fp. 253. 

 Gulfpink. Brunnich. 273. 

 Gelbe Bachftelze. Kram. 374. 



Scopoli, No, 225. 

 Br. Zool. 105. 



Descrip. rx^HE male is a bird of great beauty : the breaft, 

 A belly, thighs, and vent-feathers, being of a 

 mod vivid and lovely yellow : the throat is marked 

 with fome large black fpots : above the eye is a 

 bright yellow line : beneath that, from the bill crofs 

 the eye is another of a dusky hue -, and beneath 

 the eye is a third of the fame color : the head and 

 whole upper part of the body is of an olive green, 

 which brightens in the coverts of the tail -, the quil- 

 feathers are dusky : the coverts of the wings olive 



colored, 



