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BLACK-CROWNED WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla atricapilla*) 



^lo.fusco-rubra subtus alba, vertice remigibusque nigris, rectrici- 



busjuscisjlavescente dimidiatis . 

 Red-brown Wagtail, beneath white, with the crown and quills 



black; the tail-feathers half fuscous, half yellowish. 

 Motacilla atricapilla. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup.liii. 1. 

 Black-crowned Wagtail. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 231. 4. 



A NATIVE of New South Wales : it is the size 

 of the White Wagtail : its beak is yellow : the 

 crown of the head is black : the back and wings 

 are reddish brown: the quills are black: the under 

 parts of the body are white, the breast inclining 

 to orange ; the tail reddish brown at the base, and 

 yellowish at the tip : legs yellow. 



JAVAN WAGTAIL. 



(Motacilla Javensis.) 



Mo.fusco-olivacea. subtus flaw, collo inferior e pectoreque griseis, 

 rectrice prima tota, secunda tertiaque later e interiore apiceque 

 albis. 



Olive-brown Wagtail, beneath yellow, with the lower -parts of 

 the neck and breast grey ; the whole of the first tail-feather, 

 and the second and third, on the inner web and tip, white. 



Motacilla javensis. Briss. Orn. 3. 4/4. 42. pi. 25. f. 2. 



Motacilla Boarula. ft. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 503. 4. 



Bergeronette de Java. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 272. 



Javan Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 399. 4. A. 



