462 MOTACILLID^, 



margined with white, the two outer ones nearly entirely white, 

 with a black border along their inner web, broader on the penul- 

 timate feather ; crown of head and nape black, contrasting with 

 the back ; a broad frontal band, sides of crown, entire sides of face, 

 and sides of neck white, tinged with siilphur-yellow ; throat white, 

 succeeded by a black crescentic patch on the fore neck, which runs 

 up on the sides of the throat and adjoining which are generally some 

 black-tipped feathers (signs of the approaching black throat of the 

 following spring) ; breast and abdomen white, the sides of the body 

 grey ; thighs black, with grey tips. 



Adult male in breeding-plmnage. General colour above black from 

 the crown to the upper tail- coverts, the lateral ones of which are 

 externally white ; a broad frontal baud of white ; least wing-coverts 

 black like the back ; median series black, tipped with white, fonning 

 a wing-bar ; greater coverts black, edged with white externally, the 

 inner ones rather broadly ; bastard-wing feathers, primary-coverts, 

 and quills blackish, edged with ashy grey, the secondaries more 

 broadly with whitish, especially the long inner ones ; tail-feathers 

 blackish, the two outermost white, black at the extreme base and 

 along the edge of the inner web ; lores, sides of face, feathers over 

 the eye, sides of crown, ear-coverts, and sides of neck white, as also 

 a line at the base of the cheeks ; cheeks and throat, as well as the 

 fore neck, black ; remainder of under surface of body white, the 

 sides of the body and flanks slaty grey ; thighs black, with whitish 

 margins ; axillaries white, ashy on the inner web ; under wing- 

 coverts white, mottled with black bases near the edge of the wing ; 

 quills dusky lalackish, white along the edge of the inner web ; bill 

 and feet black ; ii-is dark brown. Total length 7-3 inches, culmen 

 0-6, wing 3-55, tail 3-7, tarsus 0-95. 



Adult female. Never so black on the upper surface as the male, 

 the back being slaty grey, with a blackish feather here and there; 

 frontal band white; hinder crown, nape, and hind neck black, the 

 latter mingling with the grey of the mantle ; wings and tail as in 

 the male ; sides of face and sides of neck white as in the male, and 

 the black throat and white underparts as in the male also. Total 

 length 6-8 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-25, tail 3-2, tarsus 0-9. 



Eah. Western Europe, occurring in the British Islands, France, 

 Holland, and extending through Heligoland to Western Denmark 

 and South-western Norway ; wintering in Spain and North Africa, 

 as well as partially ia Great Britaiu and France. 



a S ad. sk. Inverary, N.B., April 11, Gould Collection. 



1867. 

 6. S,c,d. $ ad. ; Leicestershire. Theodore Walker, Esq. [P.]. 



e-i. Juv. St. 

 k 9. ad. sk. Coton, Cambridgeshire, Salvin-Godman Collection. 



Jan. 1866 (J. Baker). 

 I. iux.; m,n. Cambridgeshire. Mr. J. Baker [C.]. 



PuU. St. 

 c? ad sk. Cambridge, Aprill4, 1856 Salvin-Godman Collection. ' 



(O. S.). 



