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MOTACILLA BOARULA. THE GREY-AND- 

 YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



GREY WAGTAIL. YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



Motacilk Boarula. Linn. Mant. 527. 



Motacilla Boarula. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 502. 



Motacilla melanops. Lath. Ind. Oni. II. 503. 



Grey Wagtail. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bergeronette jaune- Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 257. 



Grey Wagtail. Motacilla Boarula. Selb. Illustr. I. 253. 



Motacilla Boarula. Grey Wagtail. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 115. 



Male in winUr xcitli the head and hack hluish-grey tinged 

 with green, the rump greenish-gellou', the throat greyish-white, 

 the lower parts bright yellow. Female similar, but somewhat 

 paler. Male in summer with a black patch on the throat, 

 laterally edged with ichite bands. Female similar, but paler, 

 and having the black on the throat tinged tcith grey. 



INIale. — This remarkably elegant and beautiful bird is some- 

 what smaller than the Pied Wagtail, which however it exceeds 

 in length, its tail being proportionally longer. The bill is 

 very slender, straight, tapering, compressed towards the end, 

 and in all essential respects as described in the generic charac- 



