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MOTACILLA YARRELLI. THE PIED WAGTAIL. 



WHITE WAGTAIL. BLACK-AND-WHITE WAGTAIL. WINTER WAGTAIL. 

 WATER WAGTAIL. DISH-WASHER. BREAC-ANT'SIL. 



Fig. 1o3. 



Motacilla alba. Lath. lud. Orn. II. 501. 



White Wagtail. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Pied Wagtail. Motacilla alba. Selb. Illustr. I. 251. 



Motacilla alba. Pied Wagtail. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 114. 



Male in winter icith the forehead^ throaty lower parts, and two 

 bands on the wing white ; a black crescent on the /ore-neck ; the 

 head, hind-neck and rump^ black, the middle of the back grey ; 

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

 quills black, edged with white ; tail black, the two lateral feathers 

 white, excepting part of their inner webs. Female with more gr eg 

 on the hack, but otherwise similar. Male in summer tcith the 

 whole fore-neck glossy black, as is the back, except a tinge of grey 

 about the middle. Female similar, but with more grey. Young, 

 light grey above, greyish-ichite beneath, with a dusky crescent on 

 the fore-neck. 



The Pied Wagtail, which is the most common species in 

 Britain, varies so much in colour at different seasons and at 



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