COLIUS ERYTHROMELON. 551 
This yellow Wagtail is easily distinguished by its blue-grey head 
and white eyebrow. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Hur. iii. pl. 129. 
535. Bupyres mELanocerHara (Licht.). 
Black-headed Yellow Wagtail. 
The present species may be distinguished from B. flava by its 
perfectly black head. As far as we know at present it has only 
once been noticed in South Africa, a specimen having been sent 
by Mr. Ayres from the Transvaal along with examples of B. flava. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Hur. ii. pl. 130. 
536. Bupyres campustris (Ball.). Ray’s Yellow Wagtail. 
The British Museum contains a specimen of an adult Ray’s 
Wagtail, shot by Sir John Kirk at Tete, on the Zambesi River. 
The species may be told by its yellow forehead, this colour in old 
birds pervading the entire head. We do not know of any certain 
character by which immature birds of any of these three yellow 
Wagtails can be distinguished. 
Fig. Dresser, B. Eur. iu, pl. 131. 
f Fam. COLIIDZA.* 
5387. CoLtus ERYTHROMELON, Vieill. Quiriva Coly. 
Colius capensis, Layard (nec Gmel), B. S. Afr. p. 222. 
This Coly is generally distributed in the George district, and to 
the eastward, but it does not appear to frequent the sparsely wooded 
country west of Swellendam. We saw it abundantly at the Knysna, 
and Mr. Atmore obtained the nest and eggs at Traka. Mr. Rickard 
records it from Port Elizabeth and East London. Mr. Buckley states 
that it is “very common throughout the Transvaal, being found in 
flocks of six or eight or more; they fly with a rapid and straight 
flight, and, when disturbed, generally all go off together.” Mr. 
* These birds, it should be noticed, are entirely out of place here, and ought 
to be placed near the Musophagide, the reason being that at the time when the 
Editor was writing of the latter birds a question had arisen amongst Systema- 
tists whether the Colies were not Passerine birds allied to the Tits, but by the 
time the latter family were reached the general opinion was in favour of their 
relation with the Musophagide, near which family they ought to be placed in a 
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