38 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in north Scandinavia, Russia, 

 and Siberia ; on migration throughout Europe, rarely to north- 

 west and north-east Africa, not rare in India, Burmah, and 

 Tenasserim. 



77. Motacilla flava cinereocapilla Savi THE ASHY-HEADED 

 WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA CINEREOCAPILLA Savi, Nuovo Giornale dei Letterati, no. 57, 



p. 190 (1831 Italy). 



Motacilla flava cinereocapilla Savi, N. F. Ticehurst, Brit. B., i, p. 137. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One Penzance (Cornwall) ; one Shering- 

 ham (Norfolk) about May, 1842 (ut supra}. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Spain, south France (Camargue), Sicily, 

 Italy, east to Dalmatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Montenegro. Also 

 said to nest in north-west Africa, as well as occurring there on 

 passage, wintering in northern tropical Africa. 



78. Motacilla flava melanocephala Licht. THE BLACK- 

 HEADED WAGTAIL. 



MOTACILLA MELANOCEPHALA Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. Zool. Mus. 

 Berlin, p. 36 (1823 Nubia). 



Motacilla feldeggi of Michahelles, Butterfield, Bull. B.O.C., xm, p. 69 ; 

 M. melanocephala Licht., Saunders, Brit. B., i, p. 10 : M. /. melano- 

 cephala Licht., N. F. Ticehurst, i.e., i, p. 137. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Four. Male, Willingdon (Sussex), May 

 13, 1903 (W. R. Butterfield, Zool, 1903, p. 420). Male, Lydd 

 (Kent), June 3, 1908 (J. B. Nichols, Brit. B., n, p. 165). Male, 

 Winchelsea (Sussex), May 23, 1909 (id., op.c., in, p. 256). Male, 

 Romney Marsh (Sussex), May 26, 1909 (C. B. Ticehurst, I.e., 

 p. 257). One (probable) seen Norfolk, June 17 and 19, 1910 

 (op.c., iv, p. 92). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in Greece, Turkey, north to 

 Bulgaria and south Dalmatia, Asia Minor, Caucasus, south Russia. 

 Migrates south to Arabia and north-east Africa, straying occasionally 

 northwards (Heligoland) and westwards to Italy, Tunisia, and 

 Algeria. 



79. Motacilla flava rayi (Bp.) THE YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



BUDYTES RAYI Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List of B. Europe and 



N. America, p. 18 (1838" British Islands "). 



Budytes neglectus Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 142 (1855 England, rarely in 



Germany). 



Motacilla raii (Bonaparte), Yarrell, i, p. 564 ; Saunders, p. 129 ; M. flava 



rayi (Bp.), Hartert, Brit. B., i, p. 212. 



