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MOTACILLA ALBA. THE GREY-AND-WHITE 

 WAGTAIL. 



GREY WAGTAIL. CINEREOUS WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla alba. Linn. Syst. Nat- I. 3.31. 



La Lavandiere. Motacilla. Briss, Ornith. IIL 461- 



Motacilla alba. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 960. 



Motacilla alba. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 501. 



Motacilla cinerea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. I. 961. 



Motacilla cinerea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 502. 



Cinereous Wagtail. Motacilla cinerea, Steph. Shaw's Zool. X. 550. 



Bergeronette grise. Motacilla alba. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 255. 



Male in winter with the forehead, sides of the head, throat and 

 lower parts lohite ; a hlack crescent on the fore-neck ; the head, 

 nape, and upper tail-coverts hlack ; the back and sides ash-gret/ ; 

 wing-coverts blackish, the larger margined and tipped with white ; 

 quills greyish-black, edged with ichite ; tail black, the two lateral 

 feathers white, excepting part of their inner webs. Female simi- 

 lar, but with the black less extended on the nape, the wing -coverts 

 and crescent on the fore-neck dusky -grey. 



Male in summer, icith the ichole fore-neck black, the upper 

 parts of a darker grey . Female similar, but icith the fore -neck 

 greyish-black. 



Young light grey above, greyish-ichite beneath, with a grey 

 crescent on the fore-neck. 



Male. — The Grey-and-white Wagtail, which is generally 

 distributed on the continent, was described by INIr Stephens, 

 in 1817, as different from our common Black-and-white Wag- 

 tail ; but the Motacilla cinerea of Gmelin and Latham, to 

 which he refers as a compiler, was usually considered as the 

 young of the former bird, and the continental Grey-backed 

 Wagtail was by the ornithologists of this country confounded 

 with the Pied Wagtail, until the two species were clearly 



