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these readily, occasionally varied with 

 pluin-pudding, raw meat, and chopped 

 egg, though satoo continued to form the 

 basis of its meals. I had had it for two 

 years, but the climate proved too much 

 for it and it died." 



Black and white are the only colours 

 that make up this bird's dress, much 

 after the fashion of a Dhayal. 

 Coloration The sexes have different attires. 

 But the male does not put 

 on a new dress when it goes courting. 

 Motocilla maderaspatensis, unlike other 

 Pied Wagtails, has no seasonal change of 

 plumage. It has a broad supercilium from 

 the nose to the end of the ear-coverts. 

 The whole head, neck, upper plumage, 

 the lesser and median coverts are black, 

 while the greater wing-coverts are entire- 

 ly white and the quills black with white 

 edges. The middle four pairs of the tail- 

 feathers are black with narrow white 

 margin, while the other two pairs are 

 white. The breast and the lower pluma^ e 



