2G8 MOTACILLA VIDUA. 



The Wagtails generally are not shy birds, and frequent the 

 neighbourhood of man ; are to be met with both in the fields 

 and by the edges of water, constantly jerking their heads and 

 tails, or run swiftly, with head depressed, catching at intervals 

 the insects as they rise from the ground. They have two 

 broods in the year and normally lay five eggs, which are white 

 minutely freckled or blotched with brown. The nest is usually 

 placed in a hole of a bank or wall and is constructed of grass, 

 moss and fine roots, and warmly lined with hair and wool. 



Motacilla vidua. (PI. 12, fig. 1.) 



Motacilla vidua, Sundev. ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1875, p. 47 Camaroons ; 

 Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. S. Z. France, 1877, p. 477 Loango ; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 488 (1885) Niger, Gaboon, Angola, Natal, 

 Zambesi, Abyssinia; Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 307 Maurui, Pagani 

 B.; id. J. f. 0. 1885, p. 137, Tana B., Barawa ; Biittik. Notes, 

 Leyden Mus. 1885, p. 173; 1888, p. 74; 1889, p. 122 Liberia; 

 Sousa, Jorn. Lisb., 1886, p. 164 dice ; 1889, p. 115 Catumbella ; 

 Eeichen. J. f. O. 1887, p. 73 Irangi Kagehi ; Matschie, t. c. p. 143 

 Karema, p. 156 Liifuku, Lagoma ; Schalow, t. c. p. 242; Shelley, 

 Ibis, 1888, p. 292 Taveita ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 124 Camaroons; 

 id. 1891, p. 160 Taboro; p. 390 Togoland ; Shelley, Ibis, 1894, p. 

 23 Upper Shire. ; Fleck, J. f. 0. 1894, p. 411 Okovango ; Eeichen. 

 Vog. Deutsch. 0. Afr. p. 200 (1894) Bovuma B., Ugogo, Kakoma, 

 Igonda, Speke's Gulf; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 473 Somali; 

 Kuschel, J. f. O. 1895, p. 343 {egg) ; Sjostedt, K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 

 Stockholm xxvii. No. 1, p. 93 Camaroons ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 

 143 (1896) ; Kendall, Ibis, 1896, p. 174 Transvaal; Reichen. J. f. 0. 

 1897, p. 42 Togoland ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 72 Shird ; Boyd 

 Alexander, Ibis, 1899, p. 562 Zambesi; Jackson, t. c. p. 626, 

 Uganda; Oberholser, Pi\ U. S. Nat. Mus. 1899, p. 30 Liberia; 

 Hartert in Ansorge's " Under Afr. Sun," p. 348 (1899) Unyoro, 

 Uganda; id. Nov. Zool. 1899, p. 415 Gambaga ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 139 Abyssinia ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 255 (1900) ; Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1900, p. 238 Mashona. 



Motacilla lichtensteini, Cab. ; Hartert, J. f. O. 1886, p. 582 Niger. 



Motacilla vaillantii, Bp. ; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c, p. 16 (1875) 

 Gaboon. 



