GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



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INSESSORES. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



MOTACILLIDJE. 



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THE GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla neglecta, Grey-headed Wagtail, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



„ ,, Blue ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 116. 



,, fiava, Bergeronette printaniere, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. v. i. p. 260. 



,, Supplt. p. 181. 

 Biidytes ,, ,, ,, P. MusiGN. Comp. List. p. 18. 



Since Mr. Gould first pointed out the distinctions be- 

 tween the common Yellow Wagtail of this country, the 

 Motacilla Jlava of Ray, and one of the yellow Continental 

 Wagtails, which is the Motacilla Jlava of Linnseus, several 

 examples of this latter species have been killed in England, 

 and one or two in Scotland, it is therefore entitled to a place 

 in this work, and the attention of Ornithologists being drawn 

 to the subject, other examples will no doubt be obtained. 



Mr. Gould very clearly proved what appears never to have 

 been even suspected before, that the M. Jlava of English 

 authors was not only a different bird from the M. Jlava of 



