236 MOTACILLINA. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
In summer plumage, the occiput, nape, and upper parts 
generally deep black, also a large patch on the breast; a broad 
frontal band, sides of head (including the eye) and neck, large 
wing-patch, the two outermost tail-feathers on each side, and the 
lower parts, white. 
In winter plumage, the back, shoulder, and rump are ashy-grey, 
the occiput, nape, and breast-band alone being black. 
The female is a trifle smaller than the male, and the black 
perhaps is not quite so deep. 
The White-faced Wagtail is,I believe, not uncommon at and 
near Mhow. It is of course a cold weather visitant only. 
Motacilla personata, Gould. 
591.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vo}. II, p. 218; (Mf. dukhwnensis, 
Sykes) ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411 ; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 165 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 
India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 
THE BLACK-FACED WAGTAIL. . 
Length, 7°5 to 8; wing, 36 to 3°7; tail, 4°5 to 475; bill at 
front, 0°75. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
In summer plumage, the back and scapulars, pale grey ; 
occiput, nape, wings, and tail, black ; a supercilium, wing-patch, 
and outermost tail-feathers, white ; beneath, the throat, neck, 
and breast, black, the rest white ; primaries are dusky, edged with 
white, and the upper tail-coverts ashy, edged with black. 
In winter dress, the chin, throat, and beneath the eye, are white, 
leaving only a small patch of black on the breast; the occiput 
and nape are also grey, the white wing-patch smaller ; the coverts 
and secondaries also grey, edged paler. 
With the exception perhaps of Guzerat, the Black-faced 
Wacgtail is generally distributed throughout the district during 
the cold weather. 
Motacilla dukhunensis, Sykes. 
591bis.—Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 489 ; Deccan, 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 410. 
SyYKES’ GREY AND BLACK WAGTAIL. 
Length, 75 to 8; wing, 36 to 37; tail, 45 to 4°75; bill at 
front, 0°75. 
Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 
Mr. Hume points out, Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 30, that “ the 
only ready and unfailing diagnosis of the two species,’ we, 
personata and dukhunensis, “is that, in both sexes, and at all 
seasons, the ear-coverts and whole aural region are in personata 
black, blackish or dark-grey ; in dukhunensis, pure white or 
greyish or sordid-white.” This marked difference, coupled with 
the conspicuously greater amount of white on the wings of 
