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 STEEAK-EYED WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA OCULARIS, SWIN. 



Description. — Length seven and one 

 half inches : Bill black plumbeous at 

 the base. Tarsus black. Iris brown. 



The plumage of this species like that 

 of the other Pied Wagtails, _ shows 

 many variations of black white and 

 gray. It may be distinguished by 

 the eyestreak — dusky in the young, 

 black in the adult birds — together 

 with the gray back and shoulder, 

 winter and summer. Again we give 

 the British Museum Catalogue's 



Key to the Plumage of Motacilla 

 ocularis ; 



a. Throat white or tinged yellow : 



a' Onl> a dusky brown patch on 

 the foreneck, upper parts ashy brown ; 

 . . . . Young first plumage. 

 b' Black crescent on foreneck ; 

 a" Head like the back, white fore- 

 head slightly indicated ; . . 



Young first winter plumage. 



b" Head black, forehead white ; . . 



Adult secoyid winter plumage. 



b. Throat black up to chin or near- 

 ly so ; . . . Adult summer plumage. 



Distribution. — China generally, a 

 common winter visitant in the 

 Yangtse Valley. 



EASTERN PIED WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA LUGENS, KITTLITZ. 



Description. — Length seven and one 

 half inches. Bill and tarsus black. 

 Iris brown. 



This bird is distinguished from the 

 White-eyed Y/agtail by the black 

 eyeline. It comes very near the 

 Streak-eyed Wagtail in winter, then 

 both have giay backs, black heads, a 



