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Reiclieuow records it from Caraaroons, and Mr. Dubois mentions 

 a specimen as forming part of the collection made by Storms 

 during bis journey through the Congo district to Lake 

 Tanganyika, and this subspecies has been more recently pro- 

 cured by Lieut. -Col. Manning at Zomba to the south of Lake 

 Nyasa. 



Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub refer to M. borealis one of 

 Andersson's skins from Damaraland, and Seebohm's collection 

 contained a specimen obtained by Mr. T. Ay res in the Transvaal. 

 To the north of Nyasaland in eastern Africa all three forms 

 appear to be fairly represented. 



From South Africa there are three specimens in the British 

 Museum collected by Andersson, who writes : " I had been 

 fifteen years in Damaraland before I became aware of the 

 existence of this Wagtail, which I first observed at Objim- 

 bincpie in 1865." He further adds : " It is a migratory bird, 

 and appears only in or about the rainy season." Layard, in 

 his first work on the birds of South Africa, records a specimen 

 from Swellendam, and in his more recent edition informs us 

 that a specimen was shot by Mr. F. Dumbleton about fifteen 

 miles from Cape Town, and observes, " he had previously told 

 us that he had seen a specimen about the same farm many 

 years before, and as he was a close observer of birds we feel 

 sure that his observations may be trusted, and we may con- 

 clude from the fact that only two specimens were met with by 

 him in sixteen years, that this Yellow Wagtail is a very rare 

 and accidental visitor to this part of South Africa. Mr. T. C. 

 Rickard mentions the fact of a specimen having been killed 

 once near East London." Wahlberg procured the species at 

 Port Natal. 



From the Transvaal Mr. T. Ayres writes : " This Wagtail 

 appears here in our spring in considerable numbers, and leaves 

 again about the latter end of April ; they do not appear to 



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