532 MOXACILIID^. 



23. Motacilla xanthophrys. (Plate VIII. fig. 6.) 

 Motacilla melauocepliala, var., Seehohm, Ibis, 1884, p. 428. 



Adult male. General colour above oUve-green, becoming brighter 

 and clearer olive-yellow towards the rump and upper tail-feathers, 

 the latter with dusky blackish centres ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back; median and greater coverts blackish, the former edged with 

 pale yellow, the latter with yellowish white ; bastard-wing and 

 primary-coverts dusky blackish, obsoletelj' fringed with olive ; quills 

 dusky blackish, edged with dusky brown, the first primary narrowly 

 margined with dull whitish ; the inner secondaries broadly mar- 

 gined with ashy olive, whitish towards the end of the feathers ; 

 tail-feathers black, the two outer ones white, with an oblique mark 

 of blackish along the inner web, more extended on the penultimate 

 feather, which has a little brown along the shaft; crown of head 

 and nape jet-black ; lores, feathers below the eye, and ear-coverts 

 also black ; upper and under edge of eyelid yellowish white ; above 

 the eye a narrow streak of bright yellow ; cheeks and under 

 surface of body bright golden yellow, including the thighs and 

 under tail-coverts ; sides of the body washed with olive-green ; on 

 the centre of the breast a few concealed black streaks ; sides of the 

 upper breast washed with greenish black ; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts white, washed with yellow ; quills dusky below, ashy 

 along the inner web. Total length 5-7 inches, culmen O'o5, wing S'l, 

 tail 2-6, tarsus 0-95. (Mi(,s. H. Sethohn.) 



Bab. Lenkoran. 



2. LIMONIDROMtJS. ^ 



Kemoricola, Blyih, J. A. 8. Bimj. xvi. p. 429 (1847, nee 



JHodffs.) L. indicus. 



Limouidromus, Gould, B. Asia, iv. pi. 67 (1862) ....... L. indicus. 



Nemorivaga, Fitz. Sitz. Akud. Wien, xlvi. p. 220 (1864) . . L. indicus. 



Range. The same as that of the species. 



1. Limouidromus indicus. 



Bergeronette grise des Indes, Sonn. Voy. Inch Orient, ii. p. 207 (1782). 



Indian Wagtail, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 399 (1783). 



Motacilla indica, Gm. Syst. Kat. i. p. 962 (1788) ; Gray, Gen. B. 



i. p. 203 (1847) ; Felz. Beis. JS'ovara, Voy. p. 68 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. B. i. p. 248, no. 3594 (1809). 

 Motacilla ^ ariegata, Vieill. 1^. Diet. d'Hist. Kat. xiv. p. 699 (1817) ; 



Jerd. 3Iadr. Journ. xi. p. 10 (1849); Eelaart, Prodr. Cat. p. 121 



(1852J ; Layard, Ann. (5,- May. Kat. Hist. xii. p. 268 (1853). 

 Nemoricola indica, Blyfh, J. A. S. Benq. xvi. p. 429 (1847) ; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 136 (1849) ; Bp. Camp. i. p. 251 (1850); 



Sorsf. 4- Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 353 (1854) ; &wi7ih. 



Ibis, 1861, p. 333; id. P. Z. S. 1862, p. 317, 1863, p. 276; id. 



Ibis. 18C3, p. 94 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 226 (1863) ; Swinh. P. Z. S. 



1870, p. 433; Huone, Sir. F. 1873, p. 450, 1874, p. 479; Fairb. 



Str. F. 1j?75, p. 260 ; Artnstr. Utr. F. 1876, p. 329. 

 Limouidromus indicus, Gould, B. Asia, iv. pi. 67 (1802) ; Sidnh, 



