MOTACILLIDA{—WAGTAILS. Or 
some of coverts with greyish tips; fore neck marked with 
greyish ; breast washed with reddish-grey. 
Distribution: Resident in Central and Southern Europe, 
including Great Britain, ranges across Central Asia, wintering 
in India, Persia, and Northern Africa. 
Habitat: Near streams or in damp grassy places. 
BLUE-HEADED WAGTAIL.% 
Motacilla fava Zinn. 
Adult Male (Summer): Cvown, nape and ear-coverts 
grey ; eye-stripe distinct, white ; back greenish-yellow ; quills 
dark brown; wing-coverts broadly edged with yellow ; tail 
dark brown except outermost feathers which are chiefly white ; 
chin white, vest of under parts bright yellow ,; bill, legs, and feet 
dark brown; irides brown. Length 6 inches; culmen 074; 
wing 3°25 ; tail 3; tarsus 0°35. 
Adult Female (Summer): Above paler, fore parts with 
slight olivaceous tinge ; eye-stripe less distinct ; under parts. 
much paler yellow. 
Adults (Winter): Upper parts washed with olive-brown. 
Young: Upper parts greyish-brown ; eye-stripe distinct, but 
buffish ; lores and ear-coverts darker than in adult ; beneath 
dull white, tinged with yellow on abdomen; chest and flanks. 
washed with brown. 
Distribution : ~Breeds in Central Europe and Central 
Asia ; occasionally found in England. Winters in Southern 
Europe, Africa, and Hindostan. 
Habitat: Swamps and damp meadows. 
GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL.* 
Motacilla viridis Gme/. 
Adult Male (Summer): Very similar to JZ. flava, but 
has the upper parts, if anything, a trifle darker, xo superciliary 
stripe, and the lores and ear-coverts darker than the crown. 
Bill, legs, feet and irides dark brown. Length 6°25 to 675 
inches ; culmen 0°45 ; wing 3; tail 3; tarsus 0°85. 
