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285. Natural skeleton of male. 



Presented hij Mr. J. AOruhams. 



Family MOTACILLID^ *. 



Genus MOTACILLA. 

 Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 328 (1766). 



Motacilla lugubris. 



MotaciUa Inrjuhris, Temminek, Man. d'Orn. i. p. 253 (1820) ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 460 (1S85). 



The Pied Wagtail. 



Hah. Western Europe. 



286. Skeleton. 0. C. 1582 b. Purchased. 



287. Skull. 0. C. 158a. Purchased. 



288. Sternum, with shoulder-girdle. S. S. 1404. Purchaml. 



Motacilla melanope. 



Motacilla melanope, PaUas, Eeis. lluss. Eeichs, iii. App. p. 6y6 

 (1776); Sharps, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 497 (1885). 



The Grey Wagtail. 



Hah. The whole of Europe and Asia, wintering in the south. 



289. Skeleton. O.C. 1582 c. Purchased. 



Motacilla borealis. 



Motacilla Jiava horealis, Sundcv. (Efv. K. Vct.-Akad. Fiirh. Stockh. 



1840, p. 53. 

 Motacilla horealis, Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. x. p. 522, pi. vii. 



figs. 1-3 (1885). 



The Indian Field- Wagtail. 



* For remarks upon the osteohjgy of the genus Anthus, cf. Sbufeldt, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club (Cambridge, U. S.), vol. vii. no. 4, Oct. I88i', p. ^Ib, also 

 .Journ. Morphology (U. S.), vol. iii. no. 1, p. 96, June 1889. 



