1. MOTACILLA. 499 



Budytes flava (wee L,), Bettoni, Ucc. Nidif. Lomb. tav. 62 (1865-70). 

 Calobates boanila, Sicinh. Ibis, 1870, p. 346 ; Hume, Str. F. 1873, 



p. 201 ; id. Nests andE(j(js Ind. B. p. 381 (1874) ; id. Str. F. 1874, 



p. 237. 

 Motacilla (Calobates) sulphurea, Blanf. Geol. 8f Zool. Abyss, p. 381 



(1870). 

 Motacilla (Calobates) boai'ula, Heugl. Orn. N.O.-Afr. ii. pt. 2, App. 



p. Ixxxix (1871). 

 Calobates melanope, Sminh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 364 ; Brooks, J. A. S. 



Bern/, xli. p. 82 (1872) ; id. Str. F. 1875, p. 250 ; Fairb. Str. F. 



1876, p. 200 ; Bourd. t. c. p. 401 ; Prjev. in Dawson Rowley''s Orn. 



Misc. ii. p. 193 (1876) ; David ^- Oiist. Ois. Chine, p. 302 (1877) ; 



Walden, Tr. Z. S. ix. p. 196 (1877) ; Ttoeedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 310; 



mime Sf Davison, Str. F. 1878, p. 362 ; Davison ^ Wend. Str. F. 



1878, vol. ii. p. 84 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 65, 103, 161 ; Sculli/, 



t. c. p. 315 ; Brooks, t. c. p. 484 ; Butler, Cat. B. Sind ^c. p. 40 



(1879) ; id. Cat. B. S. Bomb. Pres. p. 54 (1880) ; Vidal, Str. F. 



1880, p. 69 ; Meid, Str. F. 1881, p. 48 ; Salvad. Orn. Papuasia etc. 



ii. p. 431 (1881); Biddidiih, Ibis, 1881, p. 68; Scully, t. c. 



p. 452 ; Davidson, Str. F. 1882, p. 310; mchols. Ibis, 1882, p. 62 ; 



C. Sivinhoe, t. c. p. 109 ; Slater, t. c. p. 433 ; Nichols. Ibis, 1883, 



p. 253 ; Davison, Str. F. 1883, p. 395 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. 



p. 159 (1883). 

 Calobates bistrigata, Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 259 (1874). 

 Budytes novae guiiieae, Meyer, Sitz. Isis Dresden, 1875, p. 74 ; id. 



Mitth. K. Zool. Mies. Dresden, i. p. 10 (1875) ; Salvad. Ann. Mus, 



Civic. Genov. xii. p. 345 (1878). 

 Calobates melauops (lapsti), Ball, Str, F. 1874, p. 416 ; id. Str. F. 



1878, vol. ii. p. 219. 



Nestling (Agoriane, Greece, May 8 ; H. Seebohm). General colour 

 dull ashy groy, with a slight shade of browu on the head and neck ; 

 wing-covcrts blackish brown, edged and tipped with pale fulvous 

 brown, whiter at the ends of the greater series ; quills blackish, 

 edged with yellowish white, broader on the secondaries ; tail (half- 

 grown) blackish, the centre feathers edged with white or pale 

 yellow, the three outer feathers white ; lores, sides of face, and 

 ear-coverts ashy grey, the latter mixed with pale tawny ; a narrow 

 ej-cbrow of pale tawny buff; under surface of body pale tawny 

 buff, ashy on the throat, dull white on the abdomen, and saffron- 

 yellow on the under tail-eovcrts, like the lower rump and upper 

 tail-coverts. (Mus. H. Seehohm.) 



The full-grown young bird has the same plumage as the nestling 

 described, but has the eyebrow and throat whiter, the chest also 

 ashy white, with a tinge of yellow ; the edgings to the inner 

 secondaries are pale yellow, and the wing-spot at the base of the 

 secondaries is pronounced. After the autumn moult, although the 

 belly and breast are much brighter yellow and the upper surface 

 clearer groy, there is a return to the pattern of the nestling plumage 

 in the buff-coloured thi'oat and eyebrow. 



Young injlrst ivintcr plunuuie. General colour above ashy brown, 

 greyer on the lower back and rump, the lower rump and upper tail- 

 covcrts olivc-yeUow, the lateral ones brighter ; lesser wing-coverts 

 like the back ; median and greater coverts dusky blackish, edged 



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