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MOTACILLID^. 



h, i, k. Ad. sk. 



I. Juv. sk. 



m, n, 0. Ad. sk. 



p. Ad. sk. 



q, r. c? $ ad. sk 



s. S ad. sk. 



t. (S juv. sk. 



u. Ad. sk. 



V, iv. Ad. et juv. sk. 



.V, y. AA. sk. 



z, a'. Ad. sk. 



Z.'. Ad. sk. 



c', d'. Ad. sk. 



e'. Ad. sk. 



/. Ad. sk. 



g. Ad. sk. 



Kumaon (Strachey). 



Nepal. 



Nepal {Hodgson). 



Behar. 



Mhow, Nov. 



Mhow, March. 



Mhow, June. 



Sauo-or (Hooper). 



Kamptee. 



Deccau (Sykes). 



Madras. 



Madras (Jerdon). 



Travancore. 



Nilghu'is (Day). 



Ootacamund, Nilghiris. 



India. 



India Museum. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



India Museum. 



B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



Col. Swinhoe [P.] 



Col. Swinhoe [P." 



Col. Swinhoe [P.; 



India Museum. 



Dr. B. Hinde [P.]. 



India Museum. 



Rev. H. B. Baher [P.j. 



India Museum. 



Maior .T. Biddulph [0.]. 



India Museum. 



W. Davison, Esq. [P.]. 



Gould Collection. 



II. Motacilla grandis. 



Motacilla lugubris, Temm. Man. d'Orn. iii. p. 175 (18.35, nee Temm. 

 op. eit. i. p. 253, 1820). 



Motacilla lugens (necKittl.), Temm. ^- Sehl. Faun. Jap., Aves, p. 60, 

 pi. 25 (1850) ; £p. Consp. i. p. 250 (1850, pt.) ; Blakist. Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 319; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 246, no. 3565 (1869); Seehohm, 

 Ibis, 1878, p. 347 ; Blakist. Chrysanthemum, ii. p. 31 (1883). 



Motacilla japouica (wfc Sioinh.), Tristr. Ibis, 18G6, p. 291 ; Gray, 

 Hand-l. B. i. p. 246, no. 3566 (1869) ; Sivinh. Ibis, 1874, p. 156; 

 Blakist. ^ Fryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 236; iid. List B. Japan, p. 155 

 (1882) ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 34; id. Ibis, 1884, p. 38; Blakist. 

 Amended List B. Japan, p. 52 (1884). 



Motacilla lugens, var. lugubris, Simnh. Ibis, 1860, p. 357. 



Achilt. General colour above black from the crown to the tail, 

 with the forehead white ; upper tail-coverts black, the lateral ones 

 externally white ; lesser wing-coverts black like the back ; median 

 and greater coverts pure white, forming a large shoulder-patch ; the 

 innermost greater coverts mesially black ; bastard-wing and pri- 

 mary-coverts pure white, the former with some black in their 

 centres ; qiiills black, with the base white, the secondaries pure 

 white, the long inner ones black, white along the outer web, which 

 has the basal third pure white ; tail-feathers black, the two centre 

 ones edged with white, the two outer feathers pure white, with a 

 broad black edging to the inner web ; a broad frontal band of white 

 extending in an eyebrow to above the ear-coverts ; lores, feathers 

 round the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, throat, and fore neck black, the 

 chin only being white ; remainder of under surface of body pure 

 white, including the under tail-coverts, axillaries, and under wing- 

 coverts ; thighs white, with blackish bases ; quills blackish, inter- 

 nally white. Total length 8-5 inches, culmen 0*7, wing 3-85, tail 

 3-9, tarsus I. 



In Mr. Seebohm's collection is a very interesting specimen, ob- 

 tained by Capt. Blakiston at Sapporo in Yezo, in October, which 

 is moulting from a grey plumage into the black diess of the adult. 

 The young bird therefore must be grey ; and it is to be noted that 



