72 Mr. Hugli Whistler on the 



1367. 8.4.1914. Jhelmn. AVing 90 mm. 



1378. 12.4.1914. „ ? • ,, 82 mm. 



This is the most common Wagtail of the district, and may- 

 be met with from August until about the middle of May. 

 It occurs in greatest numbers as a spring and autumn 

 passage-migrant from March until May, and again from 

 August until October, but is also sufficiently general and 

 common as a winter resident. 



[1347 and 1367 belong to the well-marked race M. a. diik- 

 hunensis of Sykes, which shows nearly as much white on the 

 tertials, greater and median coverts, as does M. personata. 

 Both specimens are in freshly moulted plumage. 



The rest are typical M. alba alba, and therefore its range 

 as a passage migrant and winter visitor must be extended to 

 the Punjab (c/. Hartert, Vog. pal. Fauu. p. 303). The April 

 and May specimens are in full summer plumage and in 

 fresh body-feather. Some at least, perhaps all, have recently 

 moulted the tertials, and two specimens appear to have 

 recently moulted the central tail-feathers. Some females 

 have the chin and throat so narrowly edged with black in 

 spring that much of the white bases of the feathers show, a 

 condition I have also noted in British specimens. — C.B. T.] 



Motacilla personata. The Masked Wagtail. 

 868. 17.9.1913. Jhelum. S ■ ^^'n\g 97 mm. 

 892. 9.10.1913. „ ,., 95 mm. 



1377. 12.4.1914. „ ? . ., 89 mm. 



1379. 13.4.1914. „ ? . „ 89 mm. 



A common species found usually in company with the 

 White Wagtail, but only about in the proportion of one to 

 ten ; on two or three days about the middle of March, how- 

 ever, the Masked Wagtail appeared to be in the majority. 

 Its status appears to be exactly the same as that of the 

 White Wagtail, except that it perhaps arrives a few days 

 later and leaves a few days earlier. 



[1379 has a white line running from the base of the bill 

 to the side of the neck cutting off the black of the throat 

 from that of the ear-coverts — a vai'iation towards what is 

 found in AI. p. subper sonata. — C. B. T.'] 



