1917-] OrnHholugij of Malta, 3 1 9 



the third appendix to his list. Blasius reports the same 

 record ; no local name, liowever, is given hy either, the 

 one which I have given has been suggested by the Hon. 

 Prof. Magro. 



65. (65) Motacilla flava flava L. The Bhie-headed 

 Wagtail. 



Local name : Isfar. 



Occurring in considerable numbers on migration in spring 

 and autumn ; during the former season the first arrivals are 

 noticed by the beginning of March, and during the latter 

 season they are to be seen by the middle or end of August — 

 solitary individuals may be met with at a much earlier date. 

 Thousands are taken during both migrations ; these are most 

 frequently sold to children, to meet, of course, a miserable 

 end. They can be at times seen exposed as game on the 

 stalls in the Market; the majority of the population, how- 

 ever, consider these birds almost unfit for food. The local 

 names, Cacciamosc or Cappamosc, and Giarnell, are generic — 

 the first two are more frequently used in jNIalta, the last in 

 Gozo, where different names are used for some of our birds. 



66. Motacilla flava cinereocapilla Savi. The Ashy-headed 

 Wagtail. 



Local name : Cacciamosc. 



Arrives together with the foregoing and is equally 

 common. Our bird-catchers and dealers seem to make no 

 difference between the two species, and call them indifferently 

 by the names given in the foregoing note ; as a distinction, 

 therefore, I have given Cacciamosc as the local name for this 

 species, though 1 am sure that by most people it will con- 

 tinue to be called Isfar, or by either of the other two names. 

 In my list of 1915 I did not include this species, though it 

 has been also reported by Schembri and Wright. 



67. (66) Motacilla flava melanocephala Licht. The Black- 

 headed Wagtail. 



Local name : Ohrox. 



Arrives together with its congeners, but it is by no means 



