460 MOTACILLID^. 



1. Motacilla luguljris. 



The Water Wagtail, Albin, Kaf. Hist. B. i. p. 49, pi. 49 (1738). 

 Vari(5tt5 de la Lavandiere, Dauhent. PL Enl. vi. pi. 652. fig. 2. 

 White Wagtail (pt.), Lath. Gen. Syu. ii. pt. 2, p. 395 (1783). 

 Motacilla liigubri^ Temm. Man. cfOm. i. p. 253 (1820); Rou.v, Orn. 



Prov. pi. 194 (182.)) ; Werner, Atlas, Imectivores, pi. 72 (1827) ; 



Temm. PI. Col. Tab. Meth. p. 35 (1836) ; Schleg. Voc/. Nederl. pi. 102 



(1854) ; Bor//f/r. Viigelf. Norddeutschl. p. SQ (1869) ; Neivt. ed. Yarr. 



Brit. B. i. p. 538 (1874) ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 239, pis. 125. 



fig. 3, k. 126. fig. 2 (1875) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 20 ; B. O. U. List 



Brit. B. p. 30 (1883). 

 Motacilla alba («ec Linn.), Gmdd, B. Eur. ii. text to pi. 141 



(1837). 

 Motacilla yarrelli, Gould, B. Eur. preface to vol. ii. (1837) ; Macgill. 



Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 225 (1839); Temm. Ma7t. d'Orn. iv. p. 620 



(l.'^40); Hewits. Eggs Brit. B. i. p. 125, pi. .33. fig. 1 (1846); 



Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 203 (1847 ) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 250 (1850); Jaub. 



et Barth.-Lapomm. Rich. Orn. p. 277 (1859) ; Bias. Nachtr. 



Naum. Vog. Deutschl. Taf. 377. fig. 1 (1800) ; id. Ibis, 1862, 



p. 70 ; Scl. t. c. p. 296 ; Gray, List Brit. B. p. 66 (1863) ; 3Iore, 



Ibis, 1865, p. 121 ; Gould, B. Gt. Brit. iii. pi. 1 (c. 186.5) ; Der/l. 



et Gerbe, Om. Eur. i. p. 384 (1867) ; Smith, Ibis, 1868, p. 442; 



Grag, Hnnd-l. B. i. p. 246, no. 3564 (1869) ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. 



tab. xxi. fig. 22 (c. 1870) ; Saunders, Ibis, 1871, p. 215; Salvad. 



Faun. Ital, Ucc. p. 121 (1871) ; R. Oray, B. West Scotl. p. 110 



(1871) ; Hurting, Uandb. Brit. B. p. 23' (1872) ; Irby, B. Gibr. 



p. 108 (1875) : Fallon, Ois. Belg. p. 68 (1875) ; Giglioli, Ibis, 



1881, p. 199 ; Irbi/, Ibis, 1881, p. 185 ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. 



vol. ii. p. 194 (1883) ; Booth, Rough Notes, pt. iv. (1883). 

 Motacilla alba lugubris, Kjeerb. Orn. Dan. pi. xix. fig. 2 (1852). 

 Motacilla algira, Selys-Longch. Naum. 1856, p. 391 ; Loche, Expl. 



Sci. Alger., Ois. ii. p. 6 (1867). 

 Motacilla alba jS. algira, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1857, p. 6l. 

 Motacilla vidua (nee Sund.), Cordeaux, Ibis, 1865, p. 180 ; Seebohm, 



Ibis, 1867, p. 163. 



Nestling. General colour above dusky asb-colour, washed with 

 olive-brown, especially on the head, which has a distinct black 

 streak above the eye ; lower back and rump blackish, with obscure 

 edges of rusty brown, the lateral feathers externally whitish ; 

 lesser wing-coverts like the back, the median and greater series 

 blackish, externally edged with olive-brown, and tipped with dull 

 whitish or rusty white, so as to form a double bar across the wing ; 

 bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, externally edged 

 with ashy grey, the secondaries with buffy whitish ; tail-feathers 

 black, the outer ones yellowish white ; ring round the eye and 

 feathers above the ear-coverts white ; lores ashy ; car-coverts yel- 

 lowish white, with black margins ; cheeks and throat yellowish white, 

 with a broad black stripe on the lower malar region, widening out 

 and ioining a black jjatch on the fore neck, the feathers shghtly 

 edo-ed with rusty ; sides of breast ashy, overwashed with rusty ; 

 remainder of under surface white, with a slight tinge of rusty, 

 especially on the flanks : thighs black with white edges ; under wing- 

 coverts white, mottled with black bases. 



