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INDIAN WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla Indica.) 



Mo.griseo-virescens subtusjlavescens,pectore lunulis duabus nigris 

 confluentibus, rectricibus duabus extimis Jemoribus crissoque 

 albis. 



Greenish-grey Wagtail, beneath yellowish, with two black con- 

 fluent lunules on the breast ; the two outer tail-feathers, thighs, 

 and vent, white. 



Motacilla Indica. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. g62.Lath. Ind* Orn. 2. 

 503. 7. 



Le Bergeronette grise des Indes. Sonner. Voy. Ind. 2. 207. 



Indian Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 3Q0. 5. 



INHABITS the East Indies : beak pale rufous : 

 irides yellow : head, hind part of the neck, lesser 

 wing-coverts, back, and rump, dirty greenish grey : 

 the greater wing-coverts yellow ; the secondary 

 quills part brown, part yellow; the primaries dirty 

 brown, with yellow margins : breast with two 

 lunulated black bands, coalescing at their tips, and 

 connected with a line of the same colour in the 

 middle ; the rest of the breast, throat, and belly, 

 whitish yellow : thighs and vent white : the two 

 middle tail-feathers greenish grey; the rest dusky 

 brown ; the two outer ones white : legs pale 

 rufous. 



