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The Grey Wagtail migrates into Northern Africa in winter, 

 to as far south as the Equator, and ranges over the greater 

 part of Europe and Asia. 



The most southern known range for the species in West 

 Africa is the Gambia river, where Dr. P. Rendall records it as 

 a rare visitant. In eastern Africa Mr. Jackson has collected 

 specimens from the neighbourhood of the Equator, from Mau 

 and Ravine in September and March, and on Mount Elgon in 

 February. In Somaliland the Grey Wagtail has certainly 

 been met with on two occasions, one of which was by Mr. 

 Lort Phillips in February, at the Hankadeely wells on the 

 Wagga mountain, at 7,000 feet. Lord Lovat, while on his way 

 from Berbera to the Blue Nile, collected specimens at Baroma 

 and Gedda, and writes : " I shot one specimen of the Grey 

 Wagtail in the middle of the Kuni forest, several miles from 

 water." In Shoa it is said to be common by Antinori and 

 Dr. Ragazzi, who have procured specimens in October, 

 November, January and March. In the British Museum there 

 is an immature specimen shot by Mr. Blanford on the 10th of 

 August in the Lebka Valley, and Brehm records the species 

 from Mensa in April, and von Heuglin suggests that it 

 possibly remains throughout the year in the mountainous 

 districts of Abyssinia, along the streams of which he found 

 it common during the autumn and spring months. 



The name of Grey Water Wagtail was given to this species 

 by Edwards in 1758, and it was made the type of the genus 

 Calobates, Kaup, in 1829. It is much nearer allied to Motacilla, 

 Linn., than to Budytes, Cuv. 



Motacilla campestris. 



Motacilla campestris, Pall. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. x. p. 510, pi. 6, figs. 1, 2 

 (1885) Senegambia, Gold Coast, Gaboon, Natal, Zambesi, Tigre ; 



