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similar) black-and-Avhite Wagtail, the bird has been walking 

 with its characteristic motion on the mud or sand or drift- 

 wood at the margin of a stream, or flying swiftly over the 

 water from one such place to another, sometimes with a 

 sharp cry. But my specimen (No. 1873) was obtained while 

 walking in the village street. Wading birds are often seen 

 in such a situation, but this bird was shot in July, and was 

 probably a resident (unless it could possibly have been on 

 migration from the south). 



1636. MoTACiLLA FLAVA. [Amalaka.] 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 341. 



The Yellow Wagtail is often seen in the village streets 

 and much-frequented paths in the latter part of October, in 

 November, and even in December. I have not yet noted it 

 in other months. If it goes further south and returns 

 again in the spring, I have failed to observe it ou its return. 



16-47- Anthus trivialis. 

 Reich. V. A. iii. p. 311. 



No. 2910. ? . Bitye, near the River Ja, Feb. 23, 1908. 

 Shot in a cassava-patch. 



1743. Phyllostrephus clamans. [Mali.] 



Bleda clamans Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 460. 



In this paper I have not often departed from Dr. Sharpe's 

 naming of my birds. But I am glad of any authority that 

 I can follow in removing this bird and others of Reichenow's 

 genus Phyllostrephus from such close association with Bleda 

 notata and B. syndactyla. These last are not only quite 

 different in appearance, but are forest-haunting, insect-eating 

 birds, often caught in snares among the dead leaves on the 

 ground, whereas the species of Phyllostrephus mentioned in 

 this paper are birds of the opener country, never caught 

 in snares on the ground, while they live on fruit, and have 

 lively and peculiar call-notes, in wdiich the different species 

 resemble each other. 



The present species is given by the Bulu the same name 

 as the Indicator, " Mali,^' probably from the resemblance in 

 colour, and especially in the white outer tail-feathers. It is 



