80 MOTACILLIDJI. 



Motacilla capensis, Linn. ' 



(Plate IV. fig. 20.) 



Motacilla capensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vo//. tab. xxv. fig. 3 (184-5-64) ; 

 Gume;/, Ibis, 1860, p. 208 ; A)/irs, Ibis, 1869, p. 292 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard, Birds S. Africa, ^. 547 (1875-84); Butler, Feilden Sf Reid, 

 Zo'ul. 1882, p. 3.37 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 493 (1885) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 91 (1899) ; Haayner, Ibis, 1901, p. 15; 

 Sharpe, Satid-l. v. p. 140 (1906). 



Eggs of the Cape Wagtail are of a pointed oval form and 

 moderately glossy. They are cream-colour or greyish-white, 

 freckled, especially at the broad end, with pale grey or light 

 brown. On some eggs the markings are so faint that they are 

 hardly noticeable. Specimens measure from '76 to -85 in length, 

 and from -58 to '61 in breadth. 



4. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P. J. 



5. Transvaal, October ( T, Ayres : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 

 2. 14-Streams, Vaal River, November. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 



1. Eadysmith, 18th November. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



3. Blue Krautz, Natal, Nov, Capt. Savile CI. Reid [P.]. 

 3. Pondoland. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Cape Colony. Gould Coll. 



2. Cape Colony (T. Atmore: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 

 1. Cape Colony [E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 

 Tristram Coll.). 



3. Deelfontein, 4th Nov. {E. Sei- Col. Sloggett [P.]. 



mund). 

 3. Deelfoutein, 8th Dec. (.E". S.). Col. Sloggett [P.], 



3. Kuruman, 17th Dec. R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [C.]. 



Motacilla clara, Sharpe. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 13.) 



Motacilla longicauda, Riipp. (nee Gmel.), Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 



p. 495 (1885) : Shelley, Birds Afr. ii. p. 274 (1900) ; Stark, Birds 



S. Afr. i. -p. 257 (1900). 

 JNIotacilla clara, Sharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 140 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Long-tailed Pied Wagtail are of a pointed oval 

 form and slightly glossed. The ground-colour is white, densely 

 freckled with greyish-brown and lavender-grey ; one example has a 

 few black hair-lines at the larger end. They measure respectively 

 •79 by -6 and -81 by -59. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



