284 MOTACILLA CAMPESTRIS. 



Shelley, Ibis, 1890, p. 164 Yambuya; Kendall, Ibis, 1892, p. 216 

 Gambia ; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 149 (1896) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 1898, p. 72 Shird; Shelley, Ibis, 1898, p. 379 ML Mlosa, Zomba ; 

 Jackson, Ibis, 1899, p. 626 Ravine; Hartert in Ansorge's "Under 

 Afr. Sun," p. 247 (1899) Uganda, Unijoro ; Grant, Ibis, 1900, p. 140 

 Abyssinia; Marshall, Ibis, 1900, p. 238 Mashona ; Stark, Faun. S. 

 Afr. i. p. 260 (1900). 



Budytes carnpestris, Reichen. J. f. O. 1889, p. 284 Quilimane ; 1892, 

 p. 52 ; id. Vog. Deutsch O. Afr. p. 200 (1894) Bukoba. 



Budytes rayi, Bp. ; Reichen. and Liihder, J. f. O. 1873, p. 217 Accra ; 

 Oust. N. Arch. Mus. (2) ii. Bull. p. 104 (1879) Ogowe ; Hartert, 

 J. f. O. 1886, p. 583 Niger ; Emin, 1891, p. 346 Bukoba. 



Motacilla flava var. rayi, Reichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 47 Camaroons ; 

 Sjostedt, K. Sv. Vet. Ak. Handl. Stockholm, 1895, p. 93 Camaroons. 



Adult. With some yellow on the upper half of the head. Upper parts 

 olive yellow ; eyebrow, sides of head and entire under surface bright yellow, 

 mottled on the sides of the head with olive ; wing with the least coverts olive 

 like the back, remainder of the feathers dark brown with pale edges, 

 broadest and approaching to white at the ends of the median and greater 

 coverts and the edges of the secondaries ; under wing-coverts yellowish 

 white and the basal half of the inner webs of the quills with ill-defined 

 whitish edges ; tail with the four pairs of centre feathers brownish black 

 with partial narrow yellowish white edges ; two outer pairs of feathers white 

 with oblique black marks on the inner edges and a smaller similarly shaped 

 mark on the outer web, next to the shaft, of the penultimate feather. Bill 

 blackish brown fading into dull yellow at the base of the lower mandible ; 

 iris brown ; legs pale brown. Total length 5-8 inches, culmen 0-5, wing 3-25, 

 tail 2-8, tarsus 09. 



Immature. Differs in the less amount of yellow, which is confined to a 

 wash of that colour on the lower breast and under tail-coverts, entire crown, 

 back and scapulars being earthy brown ; eyebrow buff like the throat, and 

 an indication of a dusky collar round the basal half of the throat. 



The Yellow-browed Wagtail ranges over the whole of 

 Africa and Western Europe and through south-eastern Russia 

 into Turkestan. 



Specimens have been collected by Marche and De Com- 

 piegne at Dakar and Ruffisque on Cape Verde. At the Gambia 

 Dr. P. Rendall occasionally met with it, and Verreaux has 

 procured the species from Casamanse. Mr. Bi'ittikofer does 



