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paler grey and the breast and belly purer white, the wing- 

 feathers not so brown, more greyish-black (not so black as in 

 the adult male Pied Wagtail), the tips of the wing-coverts 

 usually not so pure white as in the adult male Pied Wagtail. 

 Summer. — Like winter, but with the chin and throat entirely 

 black. 



Adult female. Winter.— Diifers from first winter female 

 Pied Wagtail in being grey on the fore-head with sometimes 

 a little dusky-white showing, only the bases of the feathers 

 being white ; the crown is much grej^er with less black and 

 the mantle is paler and never Avith black. Summer. — The 

 fore-head becomes white, slightly mottled with black, the 

 crown black mixed with grey on the nape, the throat black 

 and the chin a mixture of black and white. 



Juvenile. — Difficult to distinguish from that of the Pied 

 Wagtail, but usually rather paler on the upper-parts and with 

 no dark line across the fore-head. 



First winter male. — Like the adult winter female, but 

 with rather more black on the crown. Summer. — Like the 

 adult summer male, but with browner wing-feathers. 



First winter female. — Like the adult winter female 

 but very rarely with any white showing on the fore-head 

 and the crown grey with no black and usually tinged 

 olivaceous. Summer.— Like the adult summer female but 

 the fore-head less white and the chin with more white, the 

 wing-feathers browner. 



[To he continued.) 



