GRAY WAGTAIL. 193 



In Ireland it is equally frequent during the year.* 

 Out of Europe it is said to have been met with 

 in Madeira, | in India, J Java, Sumatra, and 

 Japan. || 



In winter this beautiful Wagtail is plainly and 

 chastely dressed. The upper parts, as far as the 

 rump, are bluish gray, tinged on the centre of 

 the back with yellow. The rump is a yellowish 

 olive ; a white streak, a prevailing mark in this 

 genus and the next, runs over each eye ; under- 

 neath, the throat is pure white, shading into a 

 pale buff orange, which again changes to the 

 pale gamboge yellow, which colours the breast 

 and belly. The wings are dull brownish black, 

 the long scapulars edged with yellowish white. 

 The tail, very lengthened, is of the same colour, 

 the centre feathers edged with olive, and the 

 outer feathers pure white ; the outer web of the 

 second and third being edged with dark brown, 

 the third having, in addition, a streak of that 

 colour on the inner web. In summer, and during 

 the breeding season, all the colours become much 

 more vivid and brilliant, and the uniformity of 

 the lower parts is broken by the gorget of deep 

 black which covers the throat and fore part of 

 the neck, descending in a point upon the 

 breast. 



' Thompson. t Yarrell, Brit. Birds. 



J Gould. Temminck. (I Ibid, 



