CAPE WAGTAIL. 549 



Motacilla tschutschensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 962. Latk.Ind. 



Orn. 2. 505. 12. 

 Tschutschi Wagtail. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 397- n.Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 4. 4O3. 10. 



THIS has the crown of the head and the back 

 deep olive brown : the wing-coverts and primary 

 quills deep brown ; the tips of the middle and 

 greater coverts are white, forming two bars of 

 that colour on the wing : between the beak and 

 eye is a white spot : the breast and belly are white, 

 with a tinge of ferruginous : the vent is pale yel- 

 low : the outer tail-feathers white, except the base 

 of the inner web ; the rest of the tail dusky : tail 

 very long: legs black. Native of Tchutschi. 



CAPE WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla capensis.) 



subtus albida, fascia pectorali Jusca, superciliis albis, 



cauda nigra, rectricibus lateralibus oblique albis. 

 Brown Wagtail, beneath whitish, with a brown band on the 



breast ; the eyebrows white, and tail black, with the lateral 



feathers obliquely white. 

 Motacilla capensis. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 333. 24. Gmel. Syst. 



Nat. 1. 979. Briss. Orn. 3. 476. 45. pi. 25. f. 3. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 505. 10. 

 La Bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff. Hist. 



Nat. Ois. 5. 273. Buff. PL Enl. 28.f. 2. 

 Cape Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 4O2. 8. 



SIZE of Motacilla alba : beak dusky : the upper 

 parts of its plumage brown : the eyebrows whitish : 



