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mountains of Southern India, and breeds at Ootacamund. The months are 

 generally March, April and May. They nest in the neighbourhood of water, 

 in holes in banks ; crevices in rocks, under stones, in drains, holes in walls, and 

 in fact anywhere. The normal number of eggs is four. They differ much 

 in size and shape, and vary from a long to a broad oval more or less pointed 

 towards the small end. The ground colour of the eggs varies from pale 

 brownish to greenish white, and the markings are clouds, smudges, streaks, 

 spots and specks of earthy brown, dark olive brown and sometimes purplish 

 brown. 



788- Motacilla melanope, Pall., Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. App. 

 p. 696 ; Gm., Sysf Nat. i. p. 997 ; Dresser, B. Eur. iii. p. 25 1, pi. 128 ; Legge, 

 B. Ceylon, p. 610. Motacilla boarula, Linn., Mant. p. 517; G??i., Sysf. Nat. 

 i. p. 997; Gould, B. Eur. ii. pi. 147; Bp. Comp. List. B. Eur. and N. 

 .Amer. p. 19; Blyth and Wald., B. Burm. ^. 97. Motacilla sulphurea, Bechst. 

 Naiurg. Deulschl. iii. p. 459; Blanf., East. Pers. ii. p. 233; Seebohm, Hist. 

 Br. B. ii.p. 263. Calobates sulphurea, Kaup., Naturl. Syst. p. 33 ; Jerd., B. 

 I nd. ii. p. 220, No. 592; Butler and Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 489; Butler, 

 Sir. F. 1877, p. 230. Calobates boarula, Sivinh., Ibis, 1870, p. 346; Hume, 

 Sir. F. 1873, p. zoi ; id., Nests and Eggs, Ind. B. p. 381; Hurray, Hdbk. 

 ZooL, Sfc.y Si7id, p. 167 ; id , Vert. Zool. Sim/, p. 166. Calobates melanope, 

 Swinh., P. Z. S. 1871, p. 364 ; Brooks, J. A. S. B. xli. p. 82 ; Fairb., Str. 

 F. 1876, p. 260; Bourd., t. c. p. 401 ; Tweed., Ibis, 1877, p. 310; Hume and 

 Dav., Str. F. 1878, p. 362 ; Davison and Wenden, Str. F. 1878, ii. p. 84 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. 1829, pp. 63, 103, 161 ; Scully, t. c. p. 315 ; Vidal, Str. F. 

 1880, p. 69; Reid, Str. F. iSSi, p. 48 ; Davison, Str. F. 1882, p. 310; td. t 

 Str. F. 1883, p. 395 ; Oates, B. Br. Burm. i. p. 159. The GREY AND YELLOW 

 WAGTAIL. 



Head, nape, sides of the face and back pale grey, with an olive tinge ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts pale greenish yellow ; chin, supercilium and throat 

 white, rest of under surface yellow, purest on the middle of the abdomen, 

 under tail coverts and flanks ; primaries dusky brown, lighter on the margin 

 of their inner webs, and darker on the outer ; secondaries dusky brown, white 

 on both webs at their bases, forming a conspicuous wing band ; tertiaries 

 dark brown, also white at their bases, and edged on both webs with yellowish, 

 narrow on the outer, and broad on the inner webs, being a continuation of the 

 basal white patch ; tail dark brown, nearly black, the feathers with greenish 

 yellow edging, the outermost feathers whiter and dark shafted ; the next also 

 white, both the shaft and outer web for three-fourths their length dark brown. 

 Bill black ; legs pale brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 7-25 to 7-5 inches ; wing 2-25 to 2-5 ; longest tertiaries the length 

 of the first three primaries ; tail 3-8 ; bill at front nearly 0-5. In summer plu- 

 mage the chin and throat are black, and the under parts dark yellow ; the 

 upper surface is clear blue grey, with a slight wash of olive yellow on the 



