

146 BIRDS OF TUNISIA 



M. higuhris has not come under my notice in Tunisia, although 

 from North Marocco I have specimens of it obtained in the month 

 of March, and it may possibly also occur both in Algeria and in the 

 Regency. In Marocco the two species, M. Itigubris and M. alba, are 

 to be found in the same districts. Although the range of the former 

 species seems to be more or less restricted to the west of the Western 

 PaJEearctic region, it has been known to occur in Southern Italy and 

 Malta. No doubt the two species, M. luguhris, and M. alba, are very 

 closely allied, and in countries where both occur they have been 

 known to interbreed (Saunders, Man. Brit. Birds, p. 115). 



Under the name of M. subpersonata Mr. Meade-Waldo has recently 

 described a new Wagtail from Marocco {Dull. B. 0. C. xii, p. 27). 

 This species seems to be most nearly allied to M. iKrsonata, though 

 easily distinguishable from that bird. 



MOTACILLA MELANOPE, Pallas. 



GEEY WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla melanope, Pall. Beis. Euss. Rcichs., iii, p. 696 (1776) ; Sharpe, 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. x, p. 497. 

 Motacilla boarula, Malhcrhc, Cat. Bats. d'Ois. Alg. p. 11 (1816) ; 



Erlanger, J.f. 1899, p. 322. 

 Palleaura sulphurea, Locke, Expl. Sci. Alg. Ois. ii, p. 5 (1867). 

 Calabates sulphurea, Kocnig, J. f. 0. 1888, p. 213 ; id. J. f. 0. 1893, 



p. 25. 



Description. — Adult male, spring, from Titula, South Marocco. 



Forehead, crown, ear-coverts, nape, back and rump slate-grey, rather 

 darker on the crown and ear-coverts ; upper tail-coverts greenish-yellow ; 

 outer tail-feathers pure white, the next two pairs also white, with black on 

 their outer webs, the remaining rectrices blackish-brown; quills blackish- 

 brown ; the longer secondaries fringed with grey ; chin and throat black, 

 with a white stripe running backwards from the base of the bill ; rest of the 

 underparts canary-yellow. 



Iris dark brown ; bill blackish ; feet brown. 



Total length 7 '20 inches, wing 3'30, culmen -50, tarsus -75. 



Adult female duller in colouring than the male, and generally with less 

 black on the throat. 



