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nest here, neither are they in good plumage ; the best-plumaged 

 birds are to be got just as they are leaving. During their stay 

 here they are common on our market-square early every 

 morning, where they find abundant food amongst the short 

 grass, and the cow-dung, which attracts many insects, on 

 which they are often to be seen feeding in company with 

 Motacilla capensis." 



Along the banks of the Zambesi, Mr. Boyd Alexander 

 remarks : " Considerable numbers of immature birds put in an 

 appearance for the first time at Zumbo on December 10," and 

 Sir John Kirk collected two specimens lower down the river at 

 Likoja, in March, which are now in the British Museum. 



Bohm collected specimens along the banks of the Ualaba 

 river and Lake Tanganyika, at Likulwe in November, and at 

 Katapana in March. Sir John Kirk sent me a specimen from 

 the Pangani river, where the species has been likewise met with 

 by Fischer in November and December. Fischer also collected 

 specimens at the Eonga river in March, and along the east 

 coast from Bamangwato to Barawa on the Somali coast, in 

 Masailand, Wapokomoland, and by the shores of Victoria 

 Nyanza, at Magu and Kagehi in the Uniamwesi country, where 

 the species had been previously met with by Speke. At the 

 opposite, north-west, side of this great inland sea, Dr. Stuhl- 

 mann found these Wagtails at Bukoba in October, and in 

 December at Kiandibua and on Sesse island. Emin has 

 collected specimens at Redjaf and Kiri in December, and at 

 Lado on the Upper White Nile in October and February. Mr. 

 Ansorge met with these Wagtails frequently in Unyoro and 

 Uganda from October to March, and Mr. Jackson likewise 

 records them as abundant from October 7 to March 21 at 

 Ntebi and Ravine. Dr. Hinde found the species very common 

 at Machako's, and near the coast Fischer procured a specimen 

 on Lamu island, and found them in October in large flocks at 

 Kau on the Osi river. 



