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Motacilla flaviventris, Ven: 



Motacllla flaviventris, liuch S,- E. Newt. Ibis, 1862, p. 273 ; E. Ncict. 

 Ibis, 18(J;J, p. .'US ; Miliie-Edwardfs 8f Grandidier, Hist. Nat. Madag., 

 Ois. I. p. .'Ui, pi. .•{().■}. fig-. 6 (1879) ; Cowan, Proc. It. Phijs. S'oc. 

 Edinh. vii. p. 148 (1882) ; Sfiarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 49(5 (1885) ; 

 NehrJi. Kat. Eiersaiiwd. p. 92 (1899) ; S/iarpe, Ilaiid-l. v. p. 140 

 (19UG). 



Eggs of the iladagasoar Wagtail vary from a broad to a narrow 

 oval shape aud are very glossj'. The eggs in the Collection are of 

 three types. In one the ground-colour is pale greyish-green, and 

 the whole surface of the shell is densely mottled with greyish- 

 brown and lavender. In another, the eggs are dull white, blotched 

 and mottled with uraber-brown and lavender. In the tliird type, 

 the egg is cream-colour, densely mottled with purplish-brown and 

 lilac-grey. They vary from 'Ti to '8 in length, and from -57 to 

 •G3 in breadth. 



2. Madagascar. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Betsileo, Madagascar, Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 

 3. I^'etsileo. l!ev. W. Deans Cowan [P.J. 

 2. Betsileo. lie v. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 



Motacilla boarula, Limi. 



Motacilla boarula, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Viig. tab. xxv. fig. 4, a-c 



(1845-54) ; Ifeiuitson, Ei/c/s of Brit. Birds, i. p. 107, pi. xlii. tig. i 



(1856); Hharpe, Hand-l. v. p. 140 (1906). 

 Palleuura sulphurea, Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vti//. tab. 35. fig. 11 (1855-63). 

 Motacilla sulpluu-ea, S'eebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 203, pi. 14 (1884) ; id., 



E;/(/s of Brit. Birds, p. 261, pi. 58 a. tig. 1 (1896). 

 Motacilla uielanope, Dresser [nee Pall.), Birds Eur. iii. p. 251 (1875) ; 



Sliarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 497 (1885) [part.] ; Dresser, Man. 



Pal. Birds, pt. i. p. 202 (1902) [part.]. 

 Motacilla boarula boarula, Hartert, Foi/. Pal. Faun. pt. iii. p. 298 (1905). 



Eggs of the Grey Wagtail are of a broad pointed oval shape and 

 very glossy. The commonest type of egg is pale grey or bluish- 

 white or sometimes cream-colour, mottled all over with light brown 

 of various shades. Another type, which appears to be much less 

 common, is white or greyish-white, mottled with umber-brown 

 and lavender-grey. In this type the markings are most dense on 

 the broad end, where they form a more or less confluent cap. A 

 few examples in a large serits have one or two black hair-lines at 

 the broad end of the egg. Specimens measure from •? to vS in 

 length, and from -54 to -6 in breadth. 



6. Dunvegan, Isle of Skye, 15tli May. J. Steele Elliott, Esq. fP.]. 



6. West lloss-shire, 7lh May {W. W. Iladclirte Saunders, Esq. 



atirlinc/). [P.]. 



5. Strathpell'or, 1st May. W. lladcliffe Sauuders, Esq. 



rp 



6. Kirriemuir, Enrfarshire, 18th June W'. Radoliffe Saunders, Esq. 

 (/v. Kennedy), [P-]- 



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