MOTACILLA VIDUA. 545 
median and greater coverts black, tipped with white, the inner ones 
more broadly; inner greater coverts white with a black centre to 
the outer web; bastard wing, primary-coverts and quills black, only 
the imner secondaries edged with white, narrowly along the inner 
web, very broadly along the outer one ; upper tail-coverts grey like 
the back, the lateral ones externally white ; four centre tail-feathers 
blackish, edged with greyish white, the remainder of the feathers 
pure white; head a little duller grey than the back, scarcely 
perceptible except on the forehead; a distinct superciliary streak of 
white from the base of the nostril to above the ear-coverts, as well as 
the upper and under edge of the eyelid; lores and ear-coverts blackish, 
the latter washed with ashy and having a patch of white on their 
posterior lower half; cheeks, throat and under surface of body pure 
white, including the thighs and under tail-coverts; across the fore- 
neck a crescentic bar of black, wider in the centre; sides of breast 
and flanks slightly washed with ashy grey; axillaries and under 
wing-coverts white; the external greater coverts blackish like the 
under surface of the quills, which are white at the base of the inner 
webs; “bill black; legs grey; iris brown” (Ayres). Total length, 
7 inches; culmen, 0°7; wing, 2°95; tail, 3°8; tarsus, 0°8. 
Adult female.—Similar to the male. 
Young.—Browner than the adult and having the middle tail- 
feathers somewhat mottled with white indentations near the base ; 
the white markings on the wings abraded and much less distinct; 
the black collar on the fore-neck much narrower and browner than 
in the adult. 
532. Moracinta vipua, Sund. African Pied Wagtail. 
Motacilla agwimp, Layard, B. 8. Afr. p. 119. 
Le Vaillant found this species first on the borders of the Orange 
River, about the 28th degree of south latitude, and thence to the 
tropic. We have received one or two specimens from Beaufort 
West, more from Colesberg, and several from Kuruman and the 
Free State. Mr. Rickard procured a fine male in full plumage on 
the 9th of June, 1870, at Hast London, and we are indebted for a 
specimen to Mr. T’. C. Atmore, who shot it at Hopetown. In Natal 
Captain Shelley says that he “only saw single specimens or pairs of 
birds at the edges of the rivers and brooks near Durban.” The 
late Mr. Frank Oates met with it on the Crocodile River, and 
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