GREY WAGTAIL. 555 



Bergeronette jaime. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 268. Buff. PL 



Enl. 28. f. 1. male. . 



Yellow Wagtail. AlUn. Birds. 2. pi. 58. female. 

 Grey Wagtail. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 144. Will. Aug. 238. 

 : Edwards, pi. 25Q. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 3Q8. 4. Lath. Syn. 



Sup. 178. 4. Don. Brit. Birds. 2. pi. 40. Lewin. Brit. Birds. 



3. pi. 95. Wale. Syn. 2. pi. 22?. Bewick. Brit. Birds. 1.1QO. 



Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. 



THE winter plumage of the Grey Wagtail is as 

 follows: beak dusky: irides dark hazel: the crown 

 of its head, cheeks, back of the neck, back, and 

 scapulars, dark cinereous : rump greenish yellow : 

 eyelids, chin, throat, and breast, buff-coloured 

 yellow; behind the eye a line of the same : eye- 

 brows pale : wing- coverts and quills black, the 

 former edged with light brown, and the latter 

 slightly edged on the exterior webs of the pri- 

 maries, and the three next the body deeply mar- 

 gined on their outer webs with yellowish white ; 

 the inner webs of all, except the three or four 

 largest, are white at the base : the belly pale yel- 

 low : the vent, sides of the upper and the under 

 tail-coverts, bright yellow : the outer tail-feather 

 is entirely white ; the second white, except on 

 the outer web, which is black to within half an 

 inch of the end ; the third similar to the last, with 

 a small streak of black on the edge of the inner 

 web ; the two next black ; the middle ones dusky, 

 tinged with ash, and edged with yellow towards 

 the base : legs dusky brown : both sexes are simi- 

 lar. About the beginning of March the chin and 

 throat become black, and by the end of that month 



