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wing, primary coverts and quills black, edged with white, more broadly so on 

 the margins of the secondaries ; tail black, the outermost white, with a broad 

 black margin on the inner web. (S/iarpe.) 



The adult female is like the male, except that the back is dusky ash colour. 

 In the winter plumage it is ashy grey on the back ; the chin is white, and the 

 feathers of the foreneck and throat are mottled with white. 



Hab. The Himalayas, extending to Turkestan to the West and Tenasserim 

 in the South. The recorded localities are Gilgit, Nepaul, Bhootan, Assam and 

 the Salween river in Tenasserim. 



787. Motaciila Madraspatensis, Gm., Syst. Nat. \. p. 961; 



Gould, B. Asia, pi. 61 ; Holdsworlh, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458 ; Sever 7z., Turkest. 

 Je-)otn. pp. 66, 139; Murray, Sir. F. 1878, p. 113; Legge, B. Ceylon, 

 p. 107 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, p 103 ; Reid, Sir. F. 1881, p. 47 ; Damson, 

 ibid, iSSi, p. 310. Motaciila madraspatana, Blyth, J. A. S. Beng. xvi. 

 p. 428 ; Bp. Consp. Av. i. p. 251 ; J'erd., B. Jnd. ii. p. 217 ; Hu?ne, Nests and 

 Eggs. Ltd. B. p. 377 ; id., Sir. F. 1873, p. 28 ; Fair bank, Sir. F. 1876, 

 p. 2OO; Dresser, Ibis, 1876, p. 177 ; Brooks, Sir. F. 1877, p. 472; Murray, 

 Hdblt., Zoo I. $v., Sind, p. 165 ; id., Vert. Zool. Sind, p. 164 ; "Davison and 

 Wenden, Sir. F. 1878, p. 348 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1883, p. 92. Motaciila picata, 

 Frank!., P. Z. S. 1831, p. 1 19. The PIED WAGTAIL. 



Head, lores, sides of the face, nape, ear coverts, chin, throat, breast, back, 

 rump and upper tail coverts black ; a broad white stripe from the nostrils over 

 the eye as a supercilium and extending to the nape ; primaries and their 

 coverts, secondaries, tertiaries and inner webs of greater coverts dark brown ; 

 the primaries and their coverts narrowly, the secondaries, tertiaries, median 

 and greater coverts tipped, and broadly margined on their outer webs with 

 white, forming a conspicuous wing patch ; the basal half of all the primaries 

 and secondaries white on the inner webs, and tipped with white ; the inner 

 webs of the innermost narrowly margined with white ; tail black, the two 

 outermost feathers on each side white, except a margin of dark brown on their 

 inner webs, which is broader on the next outermost ; breast, belly, vent, under 

 tail and wing coverts white ; edge of the wing and thigh coverts white, with a 

 few dark spots. Bill and legs black ; irides dark brown. 



Length 8-25 to 9 inches ; wing 375 to 4 ; tail 4 ; bill at front O'S ; tarsi ro. 



Hob. Nearly throughout India, extending into the Eastern Himalayas ; 

 westward to Cashmere, and thence to Turkestan. Occurs in Sind, Kutch, 

 Rajputana, Guzerat, Concan and Deccan, Khandeish, Berars, Central and 

 Southern India, Ceylon and Sikkim. The localities quoted are, Kumaon, 

 Nepaul, Behar, Mhow, Saugor, Kamptee, Deccan, Madras, Travancore and 

 Ootacamund. 



According to Hume, the Pied Wagtail breeds throughout India from north 

 to south, only avoiding the low country of Bengal Proper. It ascends to 



