226 BIRDS OF INDIA. 



This species is remarkable for tlie great length of the hind claw. 

 It is found all over India in the cold weather, being migratory, and 

 probably breeding in North-Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. 

 It is not very abundant, and is never found in dry places like the 

 last, but on the banks of rivers and lakes^ and more particularly in 

 swampy ground, or in inundated rice fields, apparently affecting 

 concealment more than the others of this group. It has been 

 obtained in breeding plumage at Mussooree, and is then a very 

 beautiful bird. 



Besides the species of Budytes already alluded to, B, oplithal- 

 mica from N. Africa, and B. Jlaveseens, Shaw, from the Moluccas, 

 are recorded. Does this last differ from viridis? 



4th. — Garden Wagtails. 



Gen. Nemoricola, Blyth. 



Char. — General form that of Budytes, but with the short hind 

 claw of Motacilla, and a peculiar mode of coloration. 



This form appears intermediate between the Wagtails and the 

 Pipits, both in structure, coloration, and habits, in which Mr. Blyth 

 states that it approximates the latter group, but that it does not 

 rise singing in the air, nor indeed is it known to have a song at all. 

 It does not appear to wag its tail. It was founded on a single 

 species. 



595. Nemoricola, indica Gmelin. 



Motacilla, apud Gmelin — Blyth, Cat. 765— Horsf., Cat. 

 560— M. variegata, Vieillot— Jekdon, Cat. 139 — Uzhalla-jitta, 

 Tel 



The Black-breasted Wagtail. 



Descr. — Plumage above greenish olive brown ; beneath yellowish 

 white ; supercilium white ; a double black band on the breast; the 

 lower one not complete in the centre, which unites laterally with 

 the upper one ; wings blackish, with two broad white bands, and a 

 third at the base of the primaries, a fourth near the tips of tlie 

 secondaries, continued along the edge of the longest tertiary ; tail 

 with the middle feathers brown, the next dusky ; the outermost 

 white, with generally a brown outer margin, and blackish base ; 



