the name given to this bird locally by the « Namaqiiois » he notes 

 that he never saw it South of 28° but that it is common on the 

 banks of the Orange River and in other parts of tropical Africa. 

 Messrs Mathews and Iredale pointed out (Austral. Av. Record, 

 III, p. 14) that DuMONTS name had priority over MotaciUa vidua 

 SuNDEVAL (1850) by which name this wagtail had been previouslv 

 called. 



Range. — Alotacilla aguimp has a wide African range. From 

 West Africa, it is represented in the British Muséum only from 

 Libéria, Southern Nigeria, Gaboon, French Equatorial Africa, 

 North Belgian Congo. 



Reichknow (Vôg. Afr., III, p. 296) enumerates a great many 

 localities from which it is recorded : including in West Africa : 

 the Gold Coast, Togoland, Dahomey, and Cameroon, from which 

 I hâve not seen spécimens. There is a large séries in the Rritish 

 Muséum from South, East and Central Africa. 



(A cominoun species at the water tanks. I used to feel sorry for 

 thèse birds loving water as they do and not being able to paddle 

 in the deep water surrounding them, whilst watching them one day 

 I was astonished to find two of thèse birds darting over the water 

 and dipping as they went, presently they became more bold and 

 actualy settled on the deep water, washed themselves and fiew out 

 to the cément walls to dry themselves in the snn. — ^\^ P. L.). 



Budytes flavus flavus. 



Motacilla Jiava Linn., Syst. Nat., X, 1758, p. 185. — Type loca- 

 lity : Europe. 



Mr LowE shot an example of the Yellow Wagtail at the Iju 

 water works, Lagos, on loth January 1920; previouslv to that it had 

 been obtained by Robin Kemp at Burutu in March 1905. 



We hâve the following spécimens from tropical West Africa in 

 the British Museuin : vSenegal (Laglaize, October) ; Libéria 

 (W. P. LowE, Jauuary and March); Gold Coast (Lowe, February ; 

 Sharpe, Moloney, Smith); Northern Nigeria (B. Ai.exander, 



