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Takazze river, and remarks that its note much resembles that 

 of our Grey Wagtail. 



Motacilla capensis. 



Motacilla capensis, Linn. ; Shelley, Ibis, 1875, pp. 60, 73 Cape, Natal; 

 Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 493 (1885) ; Distant, Naturalist in Transv. 

 pp. 49, 70, 164, 168 (1892) Pretoria; Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1893, p. 

 162 Galanga; Fleck, J. f. 0. 1894, p. 411 Damara, Namaqua ; 

 Eeichen. Vog. Deutsch O. Afr. p. 201 (1894) Karagwe ; Kuschel, 

 J. f. 0. 1895, p. 343 (egg) ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 145 (1896) ; 

 Hartert, Nov. Zool. 1898, p. 72 SMre ; Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 626 

 Nandi; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. p. 259 (1900); Marshall, Ibis, 1900, 

 p. 238 Mashona. 



Adult Male. Above, dusky grey with an olive yellow shade on the back 

 and lesser wing-coverts ; sides of head dusky grey like the crown, and 

 separated from it by a somewhat ill-defined whitish eyebrow ; wings dark 

 brown with pale edges of olive yellow passing into white along the tips of 

 the greater coverts and the outer edge of the first primary ; tail with the 

 two outer pairs of feathers white with black oblique marks on the basal 

 half of their inner webs, and a similar shaped black mark on the outer web 

 of the penultimate feather ; the remainder of the tail-feathers dusky brown 

 with very narrow pale edges. Under parts white with a slight yellow 

 shade on the breast, which is separated from the throat by a dusky brown 

 crop-band much increased in breadth at the centre ; flanks and thighs 

 yellowish ashy; under surface of wings dusky brown, mottled with white 

 on the under wing-coverts, and with partial broad white inner edges to the 

 quills. Bill and legs very dark brown ; iris brown. Total length 6-8 inches, 

 culmen 0-55, wing 3"3, tail 3-4, tarsus 09. S , 22. 6. 75, Pinetown (T. L. 

 Ay res). 



The Cape Wagtail inhabits Africa to the south of the 

 Quanza river on the west and the Equator in central and 

 eastern Africa. 



On the western side of the oontinent Anchieta has collected 

 specimens at Caconda, where it is called by the natives 

 " Oquicecenebanene," and he considered it rare at Galanga. 

 To the south of the Gunene, according to Andersson : " This 



