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south-west, Lord Lovat also met with the species, and in 

 Shoa Antinori procured a specimen in March at Mahal- Uonz. 

 Further north Mr. Blanford shot one at Adigrat in Tigre. 

 Von Heuglin in his work on the birds of north-east Africa 

 does not mention the species, regarding it possibly as only a 

 variety of M. flava. 



Motacilla flava. 



Motacilla flava, Linn. ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 30 Loan-go ; Fisch. and 

 Eeichen. J. f. O. 1878, p. 268 Lamu ; Fisch. J. f. 0. 1879, pp. 294, 

 303 Bagamoyo ; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 573 Pangani; Sharpe, 

 Cat. B. M. x. p. 516, pi. 6, figs. 3—5 (1885) Gold Coast, Niger, 

 Damara, Transvaal, Zambesi, Socotra, Abyssinia ; Buttik. Notes 

 Leyd. Mus. 1885, p. 174 ; 1886, p. 253 ; 1888, p. 74 ; 1892, p. 23 

 Liberia; Shelley, P. Z. S. 1888, p. 27 Lado ; Bendall, Ibis, 1892 

 p. 216 Gambia, Sharpe, P. Z. S. 1895, p. 473 Somali; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 150 (1896); Hinde, Ibis, 1898, p. 579 Machako's; 

 Hawker, Ibis, 1899, p. 66 Somali; Boyd Alexander, t. c. p. 562 

 Zambesi ; Jackson, t. c. p. 626 Ntebi, Bavine ; Hartert in Ansorge's 

 "Under Afr. Sun," p. 347 Uganda, Unyoro ; Stark, Faun. S. Afr. i. 

 p. 261 (1900). 



Budytes flavus, Shelley and Buckley, Ibis, 1872, pp. 282 Sierra Leone, 

 290, 292 Gold Coast; Bouvier, Cat. Ois. Marche, &c. p. 16 (1875) 

 Gaboon; Fisch. J. f. O. 1878, p. 279 Lamu, Osi B.; Sclat. and 

 Hartl. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 168 Socotra ; Pelz. Verhandl. Wien. xxx. 

 p. 145 (1881) Lado, Bedjaf, Eiri ; Fisch. Zeitschr. 1884, p. 307; id. 

 J. f. 0. 1885, p. 137 Bagamoyo to Barawa, Wapokomo ; Eeichen. 

 J. f. 0. 1887, p. 73 Magu, Kagehi ; Matschie, t. c. pp. 143 

 Tanjanyika, 156 Likulwe, Katapana ; Eeichen. t. c. p. 307 Stanley- 

 Falls ; 1891, p. 390 Togo ; 1892, p. 52 Sesse Is., Eiandibua, Bukoma; 

 id. Vog. Deutsch O. Afr. p. 200 Ualaba B., Bonga B., Igonda, 

 Ugalla, Massai, Bokoba ; Eeichen. J. f. 0. 1897, p. 43 Togo. 



Subspecies a. 



Motacilla borealis. 



Motacilla borealis, Sundev. ; Sharpe, Cat. B. M. p. 522, pi. 7, figs. 1—3 

 (1885) ; Salvad. Mus. E. A. Torino, 1894, p. 557 Somali; Shelley, 

 B. Afr. I. No. 151 (1896) ; Lort Phillips, Ibis, 1896, p. 81 Somali; 



