1. MOTACILLA. 495 



i. S juv. liiem. sk. Pietermaritzburo^, Apiil W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



30 (F. Gates). Esqrs. [P.]. 



k. (S ad. hiem. sk. Uurbau, April 23 (F. W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



Oatcs). Esqrs. [P.]. 



I, m. d 2 ad. sk. Durban, July 28 (T. L. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



Ai/res). 



n,o. c? $ hiem. sk. Transvaal (Ayres). Sharpe Collection. 



p. cS ad. ajstiv. sk. Inyati, Gct.3 {F. Oates). W. E. and C. G. Gates, 



Esqrs. [P.]. _ 



q. 2 a-d. ajstiv. sk. Walvisch Bay, Dec. 7, Sharpe Collection. 



18Q0(C.J.Andersson). 



r. 2 juv. hiem. sk. Walvisch Bay, April 30, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



1865 (C. J. A.). 

 8. c? ad. hiem. sk. Gtiimbinque,Damaralar"d, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]- 



Mar. 16, 1865 (C. J". A). 



t. Pull. sk. Sorth Africa. Pui'chased. 



13. Motacilla longicauda. 



Motacilla longicauda {non Gm.), Milpp. Neue Wirh., Vog. p. 84, Taf. 

 29. fig. 2 (1835-50) ; id. Syst. Uehers. p. 59 (1845) : Gray, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 203 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 2-51 (1850) ; Heugl. Syst. Uehers. 

 p. 28 (1856) ; Gurmy, Ibis, 1862, p. 151 ; Layard, B. S. Afr. 

 p. 119 (1867) ; id. Ibis, 1869, p. 73; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 246, 

 no. 3574 (1869) ; Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 319, iv. p. Ixxxix 

 (1869-71) ; Finsch S,- Hartl. Vog. Ostafr. p. 265 (1870) ; Sharpe, 

 ed. Layard^ s B. S. Afr. p. 544 (1884) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civic. 

 Genov. (2) i. p. 165 (1884). 



Adult male. General colour above clear blue-grey ; lesser wing- 

 coverts blackish, edged with a little darker grey than the back ; 

 median and greater coverts black, tipped with white, the inner ones 

 more broadly ; inner greater coverts white, with a black centre to 

 the outer web ; bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills black, only 

 the inner secondaries edged with white, narrowly along the inner 

 web, very broadly along the outer one ; upper tail-coverts grey like 

 the back, the lateral ones externally white ; four centre tail-feathers 

 blackish, edged with greyish white, the remainder of the feathers 

 pure white ; head a little duller grey than the back, scarcely per- 

 ceptible except on the forehead ; a distinct superciliary streak of 

 white from the base of the nostril to above the ear-coverts, as well 

 as the upper and under edge of the eyelid ; lores and ear-coverts 

 blackish, the latter washed with ashy and having a patch of white on 

 their posterior lower half; cheeks, throat, and under surface of body 

 pure white, including the thighs and under tail-coverts ; across the 

 fore neck a crescentic bar of black, wider in the centre ; sides of breast 

 and flanks slightly washed with ashy grey ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white ; .the external greater coverts blackish like the 

 under sirrfacc of the quills, which are white at the base of the inner 

 webs : " bill black ; iris brown ; tarsi and feet dark ash-colour " 

 (Ayres). Total length 7 inches, culmcn 0*7, wing 2'95, tail 3"8, 

 tarsus 0*8. 



Adult female. Similar to the male. 



