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f. Grey headed Yellow Wagtail, M. flava cinereocapilla Savi. 



Plate 19, fig. 19—22. 



Eggs: Baedeker, Tab. 35, fig. 10. 



Foreign Names: Italy: Cutrettola capocenerino. V ortngal: Lavandisca 

 amarella. Spain: Nevadilla. 



M. flava cinereocapilla Savi. Hartert, Vog. Pal. Fauna, p. 292. 



Breeding Range: The Iberian peninsula, Sicily, Italy (except in the 

 northern highlands), Dalmatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. [Also in N. Africa.] 

 Con- In southern Spain this race is not uncommon locally in marshy spots 



in the marisma and near rivers. (Whether the breeding birds of N. Spain 

 and Portugal all belong to the same form cannot be stated with certainty 

 at present. In Portugal some race of Yellow Wagtail is abundant). Eagle 

 Clarke observed it in the Camargue in May, and in Italy it is known to 

 breed in Venetia, Tuscany and commonly in Calabria, as well as Sicily, 

 but apparently not in Sardinia. Further east it is found in Dalmatia, 

 N. W. Bosnia and Herzegovina. [In N. Africa it has frequently been found 

 breeding, not only in Algeria, but also in Tunis.] 

 Nest. Much resembles the other races in its breeding habits, nesting by 



preference in herbage close to water, but where this is lacking, it has been 

 known to breed on sandy islets surrounded by water, in rushy glades of 

 woods (Chapman) and in low scrub, near, but not quite on the ground 

 (Noble). Where suitable nesting ground is scanty, several pairs will be 

 found breeding close to one another. 

 Eggs. 5 — 6 in number, and very similar to those of other races in appearance. 



In N. Africa 4 is the usual number. 

 Breeding Decidedly earlier than that of the more northern races. In Spain the 



eggs are usually laid in the last ten days of April or early in May, but 

 as the nest has been taken in June in N. Africa by Tristram and others 

 it seems probable that two broods are reared there. 

 Measure- Average of 35 eggs from S. Spain and N. W. Africa, 18.56 X 14.06 



mm.. Max. 20.5 X 14.7 and 18.6 X 15 mm., Min. 17.4 X 13.6 and 

 18 X 13.5 mm. 



g. Arctic Yellow Wagtail, M. flava thunhergi Billberg.* 



Plate 19, fig. 11—14 (Lapland). 



Nest: Pearson, Three Summers in Russian Lapland, pi. 57. 

 Foreign Names: Finland: Keltasirkku. Lapland: Fiskis-cicdsch. 

 Sweden: Nordisk Giddrla. 



* This name is very reluctantly adopted in accordance with Lonnberg's 

 paper in the Journ. f. Orn., 1906, p. 531. 



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