MOTACILLINA. 241 
The Yellow-headed Wagtail is very common during the cold 
season in Sind, affecting paddy fields, edges of marshes, and banks 
of rivers and canals. 
Budytes citreola, Pall. 
594bis.—Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411; Murray’s 
Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 169; Motacilla citreola, Pall.; 
Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 
THE GREY-BACKED YELLOW WAGTAIL. 
Length, 7'1 ; wing, 3°18; tail, 2°75; bill at front, 0-4. 
Bill pale-brown ; irides brown ; legs pale brown. 
Forehead, crown of head, sides of the face, ear-coverts, chin, 
throat, breast, and entire under parts bright yellow, paler on 
the vent, and nearly white on the under tail-coverts; nape, and 
upper back, black; lower back and scapulars dark-grey ; rump 
and upper tail-coverts pale or dark-brown or yellowish-green, 
the feathers edged with greenish; primaries and_ secondaries 
dusky ; tertiaries dark brown; the primaries and_ secondaries 
faintly edged and tipped with white, and the tertiaries broadly so, 
all basally white on their inner webs; lesser wing-coverts like the 
back and tipped brown; median and greater-coverts brown, 
edged with white, and forming two conspicuous white or yellowish- 
white bands ; the second band oblique in the closed wing, being 
formed by the white of the greater coverts, and that of the inner- 
most tertiaries, the longest of which is nearly equal in length with 
the fourth primary; under wing-coverts white ; tail black, the 
feathers with a faint tinge of whitish on their outer webs; the 
two outermost tail-feathers on each side white, with a broad 
margin on their inner webs, to about halfan inch from the tip; 
the next black, with the edge of the outer web and tip white. 
The Grey-backed Yellow Wagtail is a common cold weather 
visitant to the Deccan, Rajputana, and also in a lesser degree to 
Sind. 
Genvs, Limonidromus. 
Similar characters to Budytes, but with the short hind-claw of 
Motacilla. 
Limonidromus indicus, Gm. 
595.—Nemoricola indica, Gm.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. IT, 
p. 226; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411. 
THE BLACK-BREASTED WAGTAIL. 
Length, 6°25; expanse, 10; wing, 3:12; tail, 2.6; tarsus, 09; 
bill at front, 0°48. 
Bill dusky, beneath whitish ; legs whitish, tinged with purplish- 
rown. 
Plumage above greenish olive-brown, beneath yellowish ; 
supercilium white ; a double black band on the breast, the lower 
one not complete in the centre, which unites laterally with the 
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