MOTAC1U.A 



Length. 6-5 to 7 inches; wing 3-5 ; tail 3-5 ; bill at front 0-5. 



Hal. India generally to Ncpaul. Affects, during winter, the paddy fields, 

 the banks of the River Indus, marshes and canals. Numerous in Sind, on 

 the Munchur ; also in Rajputana and the Deccan, Beloochistan, Afghanistan, 

 and E. Turkestan ; Nepaul, Assam, N.-W. Himalayas, and Gilgit. 



791. Motacilla beema, Sykes, P.Z.S. 1832, p. 90; SAarpe 



Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 521. Budytes flava (iion Z.), Hume, Ibis, 1869, 

 P- 3575 l8 7, P- J 42; id-* Sir. F. 1874, pp. Si, 238; Armstrong, Sir. F. 

 1876, p. 329; Butler, Sir. F. 1877, pp. 210, 230; Hume, Sir. F. 1879, 

 pp. 65, 103 ; Seebhom, Ibis, 1880, p. 189. The LONG-CLAWED YELLOW 

 WAGTAIL. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, rather brighter yellow 

 towards the lower back and rump ; upper tail coverts dusky brown, edged 

 with yellowish, the lateral ones externally white, washed with yellow ; lesser 

 wing coverts like the back ; median and greater coverts dull brown, edged and 

 tipped with dull olive yellow, or white, tinged with olive yellow ; primary 

 coverts and quills dark brown, edged with ashy olive ; secondaries broadly 

 edged with yellowish white or brown, washed with olive ; tail feathers 

 blackish, edged with pale olive yellowish, the two outer ones white, with a 

 broad oblique mark of dark brown on the inner web ; head and hind neck 

 light pearly grey ; lores dusky, surmounted by a very broad white eyebrow, 

 extending from the base of the nostrils to above the ear coverts ; ear coverts 

 white, only the upper portion dark slaty or dusky blackish ; cheeks and chin 

 white ; remainder of throat and under surface of body brilliant yellow, a little 

 more green on the sides of the upper breast; thighs ashy; axillaries yellow, 

 dusky ash colour at the base ; under wing coverts yellow. 



Length. 5*8 to 6 inches ; wing 3-15 ; tail 2-8 ; tarsus 0*95 ; culmen O'6. 



I/ab. N.-W. Himalayas to Afghanistan, wintering in the plains of India, 

 It has been found in Kandahar and Nepaul ; also in Sind, Mhow (Central 

 India), Sikkim and Behar. 



792. Motacilla borealiS, Sundcv, (Efv. K. Vet.-Akad. F'drh. 

 Stockh.', Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 522. Budytes flava melanocephala, 

 DeSetys-Longchamps, Faun. Belg. p. 88. Motacilla viridis, Gray, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 203. Budytes viridis, Jerd,, Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 132 ; Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. xvi. p. 430; Bp., Consp. A?', i. p. 250; Jerd., B. Ind. ii. p. 222, 

 No. 593; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458; Wald. and Layard, Ibis, 1872, 

 p. 97; Blyth and Wald., B. Bnrrn. p. 96; Seebohm and Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 122; Brooks, Ibis, 1877, P- 2 8 ; Legge t B. Ceylon, p. 617; Oates, 

 B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 161. Budytes cinereocapillus (nee. Savi.}, Hume, /^/ s 

 1869, p. 357; Brooks, J. A. S. Beng. xli. p. 82; Adam, Str. F. 



p. 384 ; Hume, Sir. F. 1874, p. 237; 1875, p. 489 ; id., Oates, t. c. p. 

 Fairb., S/r. F. 1876, p. 260; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. 1878, pp. 363, 

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