1. MOTACILLA. 527 



the back ; median and greater coverts blackish brown, broadly 

 tipped with yellow, rather whiter on the ends of the latter : bastard- 

 wing blackish brown : primary-coverts and quills dark brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow, pale yellowish white on the secondaries, which 

 have broader margins, the iimer secondaries brown, broadly mar- 

 gined with lighter brown ; upper tail-coverts dark brown, edged 

 with olive-yellow; centre tail-feathers blackish, edged with yel- 

 lowish, inclining to white near the end of the thu'd rectrix ; penulti- 

 mate and external feathers white, with an oblique mark of blackish 

 brown along the inner web ; head, hind neck, and sides of neck 

 dark slaty grey ; lores, feathers round the eye, and ear-coverts jet- 

 black ; cheeks and entire throat white ; remainder of under surface 

 of body from the fore neck downwards brilliant yellow, witli a more 

 or less distinct mark of blackish in the centre of the chest ; axil- 

 laries and iinder wing-coverts yellow with ashy bases ; quiUs dusky 

 below, whitish along the edge of the inner web. Total length 6-7 

 inches, culmen 0-55, wing 3-1, tail 2-9, tarsus 0"9o. 



Adult female. Verj- similar to the female of M. Jlciva, but with 

 the throat conspicuously white. Total length 6"3 inches, culmen 

 0-5, wing 2-9, tail 2-6, tarsus 0-9. 



06s. Some specimens of the Mediterranean Yellow Wagtail are 

 imdistinguishable from true M. borealis, but the majority have a 

 very distinct white throat, and might be recognized as a species 

 were it not for the occurrence of intermediate specimens, ap- 

 parently shot from the same flock, showing also an ajiproach to 

 true M. jiava in the presence of an ill-defined white ej-ebrow. 



Hab. AU the countries of the Mediterranean ; said to extend 

 occasionally into Germany and even to be of rare occurrence in 

 Belgium ; wintering apparently in Senegambia. 



«. Ad. sk. Dalmatia. Mr. Parreyss. 



b. Ad. sk. Greece. India Museum. 



c. J ad. sk. Southern France. E. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.l. 

 d,e. J ; /: 2 ad. Tuscany, April 22. Prof. Giglioli [P.]. 



sli. 



g. S ad. sk. Near Florence, April 11. Prof. Giglioli [P.]. 



h. S ad. sk. Italy. Gould Collection. 



i. (S ad. sk. Gibraltar, April 24. Col. Irbv [P.]. 



k,l. S 2 ^*1' ^^- Casa Vieja, ^Ajidalucia, Col. Irby IP.}. 



May 0. 



■III. (S ad. sk. Fg}-pt. Capt. Shelley [P.]. 



n. cJad.sk. Beershdum, Delta, Egypt, J. H. Gurney,Esq. [P.]. 



Jan. 13. 



0. Ad. sk. Girgeli, Egypt, March 21 Gould Collection. 



(Ifaivlcshaiv) . 



p. Ad sk. Senegal. M. L. Laglaize [C.]. 



22. Motacilla feldeggi. (Plate YIII. figs. 1-4.) 



jNlotacilla melauocephala, Licht. Vei-z. Doubl. p. 36 (1823, f.?.- Hemp); 

 6; Eh: 3I^i>. ; nee Gm. S. N. i. p. 970J ; Cretzschm. in Hiipp' 

 Atlas, p. 50, Taf . 3.S. fig. 6 (1826) ; Savi, Oin. Tosc. p. 219 (1831) • 



