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pulars^ and lesser wing-coverts black. Wings and tail hair-brown, 

 with a surface- wash of pale grey, chiefly conspicuous on the basal 

 half of the latter; the feathers of the wing edged with pale 

 buff, the greater coverts and tertials being strongly tipped with 

 the same. A white spot, comprising the basal portions of the 

 outer webs of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th tertiaries, ornaments 

 the wing. The singularly distinctive character whence I have 

 taken its name consists in a white line, which, starting from 

 the centre of the chin, runs down in front quite to the breast, 

 broadening as it descends to the form of an isosceles triangle, 

 a line of black spots edging for some distance the rufous that 

 flanks its sides. Bill blackish brown, with bright yellow rictus 

 inside the mouth. Legs and claws brown, strongly washed with 

 ochre. Iris deep brown. 



Total length 7 inches ; wing 4 ; tail 2ro'. 



43. Pied Wagtail. 



Under this head we may note my species, Motacilla ocularis, a 

 specimen of which, in full summer plumage, with grey back, is 

 comprised in Mr. Whiteley^s series. This bird resembles M. 

 lugubris, though more delicately formed ; but is always distin- 

 guishable by the carpal region being grey instead of black, and 

 in its summer plumage by its grey back. There is, moreover, 

 less white on the wing. Mr. Blyth identified my bird with M. 

 dukhunensis, Sykes ; but as I have taken the trouble to examine 

 this species in the East Indian Museum, I can confidently assert 

 that M. dukhunensis is one of the M. alba group, and not one 

 of the White-winged group "so conspicuous for the black line 

 through their eyes. 



45. Yellow Quaketail. 



The specimens of this bird brought by Mr. Fleming agree 

 with Budytes cinereocapilla of Europe, the wing-coverts only 

 being a little more distinctly tipped with yellow. 



46. Wood Wagtail. 



This is the true Nemoricola indica, Gmelin, as Mr. Whiteley's 

 specimens testify. 



51. Japanese Lark. 



Our two specimens of the Peking Lark do not agree with the 



