550 CINEREOUS WAGTAIL. 



the quills brown, with grey edges : the under parts 

 of the body dirty white, the sides inclining to 

 dusky : breast with a dusky band : the two outer 

 tail-feathers tipped with white ; the rest of the 

 tail black: legs dusky. Inhabits the Cape of 

 Good Hope. 



CINEREOUS WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla cinerea.) 



Mo. cinerea subtus alba, fascia pectorali fusca, rectrice prima 



alba, secunda basi apiceque alba. 

 Cinereous Wagtail, beneath white, with a brown band on the 



breast, the first tail-feather white, and the second at the base 



and tip of that colour. 

 Motacilla cinerea. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 961. Briss. Orn. 3. 



465. 39. pi. 25. f. 1. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 502. 3. 

 Bergeronette grise. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 26l.Buff. PI. 



Enl. 674. 1. 

 Cinereous Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 397. 3. 



NOT uncommon in many parts of Europe, but 

 it is not found in England : it measures six inches 

 an^i upwards in length : its beak and legs are 

 brown : the upper parts of its head, neck, and 

 body, are greyish ash : the wing-coverts and 

 secondary quills are dusky, edged with whitish : 

 the greater quills are blackish brown : the breast 

 is marked with a dusky band, but the rest of the 

 under parts are whitish : the outer tail-feather is 



