274 MOTACILLA FORWOODI. 



The name of White Wagtail was given to this species by 

 Latham in 1783. 



Motacilla forwoodi. 



Motacilla forwoodi, Grant and Forbes, Bull. Liverpool Mus. ii. p. 3 (1899) 

 Socotra. 



Similar to M. alba in form and colouring, with the exception of the head. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-3, tail 3-5, tarsus 0-9. ? , 23. 2. 99, 

 Abd-el-Kuri ; forehead grey like the back ; sides of head white with the 

 cheeks and ear-coverts ashy grey or washed with dusky blackish ; centre 

 and sides of hinder half of crown strongly washed with black ; chin and 

 entire throat jet black. ? , 4. 12. 98, Abd-el-Kuri ; forehead and crown 

 uniform grey like the back ; sides of head, chin, and throat white, with the 

 cheeks and ear-coverts washed with ashy grey ; a black crop-band. 



The Socotra Pied Wagtail inhabits the island of that name 

 and the adjacent islets. 



Mr. Ogilvie Grant kindly informs me : " This species was 

 only met with on the island of Abd-el-Kuri, where it was 

 common enough on the stony plain outside the Arab village. 

 Unfortunately I did not at the time distinguish it from M. alba, 

 and only secured two examples, an adult and an immature, 

 both females." 



The species has been named after Sir William Forwood, of 

 Bromborough Hall, Cheshire. 



Motacilla longicauda. 



Motacilla longicauda, Eiipp. ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1882, p. 306 Ugogo; 

 Sharpe, C. B. M. x. p. 495 (1885) Natal ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1885, p. 

 228 Kilimanjaro ; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1889, p. 122 Liberia ; 

 Shelley, Ibis, 1893, p. 27 ; 1894, p. 23 Zomba, p. 472 Milanji ; 

 Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1894, p. 40 Camaroons ; id. Yog. Deutsch O. Afr. 

 p. 201 (1894) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 146 (1896) ; Eeichen. J. f. O. 

 1896, p. 35 Camaroons; Sharpe, Ibis, 1897, p. 515 Zululand; 

 Shelley t. c. p. 527 Eombi ; 1898, p. 553, Mtondwe ; Stark, Faun. 

 S. Afr. i. p. 257 (1900). 



