; MOTACILLINA. : 235 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 410; Murray’s Verte- 
brate Zoology of Sind, p. 164; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 126. 
THE PIED WAGTAIL. 
Length, 8°5 to 9; expanse, 12; wing, 3°75 to 4; tail, 4; tarsus, 
1; bill at front, 0°6; bill from gape, 0°72. 
Bill blackish ; irides dark-brown ; legs blackish. 
Upper plumage, with the chin, throat, and breast black, with 
a broad white supercilium and a large white wing-spot, formed 
by the median and greater-coverts, and the edges of some of the 
primaries ; the greater part of the two outermost tail-feathers 
white, also the edges of the upper tail-coverts; beneath, from 
the breast, white. 
The female has the black less pure. In winter the chin, upper 
part of the throat, and some feathers just below the eye, are 
white. 
The Pied Wagtail is very generally distributed throughout 
the Presidency ; it is a permanent resident, breeding nearly the 
whole year through. They have several broods during the season ; 
one pair that frequented a smail tank adjoining my compound 
at Poona hada nest with two young ones and an addled egg on 
the 38rd March. On the 23rd April I took three incubated eggs 
from the same nest; they had another nest, built about a yard 
away from the first one, which contained two eggs on the 9th 
May. In July, I noticed them feeding a pair of young birds, and 
towards the end of August they were making preparations for 
another brood. So that this pair had at least five clutches of 
eggs in one season. They were the only Wagtails on the tank, 
and were very pugnacious, and would allow no other bird to 
remain on the tank; their own young ones, as soon as they 
were able to forage for themselves, were even driven away. 
The nest which is a mere pad, composed of grass fibres, &c., is 
always near water, and is built upon something solid, such as the 
ledge of a rock, a niche in a stone bridge, a hole in a bank, or 
some such similar place. ets 
The eggs, three or four in number, vary much both in size and 
shape, but are always more or less pointed atone end. The 
general color is greenish or earthy-white, spotted, speckled, 
streaked, clouded or smudged with olive, purplish, or earthy- 
brown. 
They average 0°9 inches in length by about 0:65 in breadth. 
Motacilla leucopsis, Gould. 
590.—Motacilla luzoniensis, Scop.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, 
Vol I, pe 2s. 
THE WHITE-FACED WAGTAIL. 
Length, 7:9; extent, 1125; wing, 36; tail, 3°75; tarsus, 
0°6 ; bill at front, 0°6. 
