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BUDYTES FLAVA. BLUE-HEADED QUAKETAIL. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL. BLUK-HEADED WAGTAIL. 





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Motacilla flava. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 331. 



Eergeronette piintaniere. Motacilla flava. Temni. Man. d'Orn. I. 260 ; 



Supp. 181. 

 Motacilla negJecta. Blue-beaded Wagtail. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 116. 



Male with the head, hind-neck and ear-coterts greyish-hlue ; 

 a ti'hite band over the eye ; the upper parts yellowish green, the 

 lower bright yellow, the two lateral tail-feathers on each side par- 

 tially white. Female similar, but tcitli the head brownish-grey, 

 the upper paints tinged with greyish-brown, and the throat ichite. 

 Young light brownish-grey above, the wings and tail dusky, the 

 lateral feathers of the latter as in the adult, the lotcer parts yel- 

 lowish-white, tcith an obscure dusky crescent on the fore -neck. 



Male. — The Blue-headed Quaketail is in form, proportions, 

 and plumage precisely similar to the Green-headed, from which 

 however it differs in the colour of the head. The bill is slender, 

 straight, tapering, the tip of the upper mandible slightly de- 

 flected; its dorsal outline straight, the sides convex, the edges 

 sharp and a little inflected, with a slight notch, the lower man- 

 dible with the angle rather long and narrow, the dorsal line 

 ascending and nearly straight, the edges sharj) and inclinate ; 

 the gape-line straight. The nostrils elliptical, one twelfth of 



