242 MOTACILLIN A. 
upper one; wings blackish, with two broad white bands, and a 
third at the base of the primaries, a fourth near the tips of the 
secondaries, continued along the edge of the longest tertiary ; 
tail with the middle feathers brown, the next dusky, the outer- 
most white, with generally a brown outer margin and blackish 
base, the penultimate with white only on its terminal half. 
The Black-breasted Wagtail occurs sparingly in the forest 
tracts of the Deccan during the cold season; it has not been 
recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 
Genus, Anthus, Bechst. 
Bill straight, short, and stouter than in Budytes; wings, first 
to third quills longest; plumage spotted; hind-claw short and 
curved. 
Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. 
596.—Pipastes agilis, Sykes—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, 
p. 228; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 491. 
THE INDIAN TREE PrpIr. 
Length, 6°5 ; expanse, 11 ; wing, 3°5; tail, 2°75; tarsus, 0°8 ; bill 
from gape, 0°7. 
Bill dusky, fleshy beneath ; irides dark-brown ; legs pale fleshy- 
brown. 
In winter plumage above fine greenish-olive, with strongly 
marked dusky streaks on the crown, and some slight dark 
centres to the dorsal feathers; beneath white, with a faint 
fulvous tinge, with large dark spots on the throat, breast, and - 
flanks ; wing-coverts dark-brown; the median with yellowish- 
white tips; the greater-coverts broadly edged with olive; the 
quills brown, edged with olive; tail with the outermost feathers 
white terminally, and for the greater part of both webs; the 
penultimate with a white tip; central feathers olive-brown ; 
the intermediate ones brown, with olive edgings. 
In summer plumage the upper parts are more brown and _ less 
olive, more broadly streaked with dusky centres, and the under 
parts always pale fulvescent, passing to white on the abdomen 
and lower tail-coverts. 
During the cold season the Indian Tree Pipit is very common 
in Guzerat and Rajputana; its occurrence in the Deccan has 
only doubtfully been recorded. 
Anthus trivialis, Zzn. 
597.—Pipastes arboreus, Bech.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, 
p. 230; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 490; 
Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p.412; Anthus arboreus, 
Bechst.; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 170 ; Swinhoe 
and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 
THE EUROPEAN TREE PIPIT. 
Length, 6-5; wing, 3°5; tail, 2°5; tarsus, 0°8 ; bill at front, 0-43 
