290 MOTACILLID^E. 



Bill black, plumbeous at the base ; iris browii ; legs and claws 

 black. 



Length about 8 ; tail 3-8 ; wing 37 ; tarsus -95 ; bill from gape 

 8 ; the dimensions of this species vary much. 



Distribution. A. winter visitor to the greater portion of Pegu and 

 Tenasserim, where this species is abundant. It has been obtained at 

 Dibrughar in Assam, in Manipur, and in Nepal, and may therefore be 

 expected to occur throughout the whole eastern half of the Empire. 

 This Wagtail has a very wide range, extending to China and 

 Eastern Siberia and being occasionally observed in North America. 



M. lugens, from China and N.E. Asia, resembles M. ocularis, but 

 has the back black in summer and the wings with an immense 

 amount of white on them. The note of this species is a prolonged 

 " Pooh." 



829. Motacilla personata. The Masked Wagtail. 



Motacilla personata, Gould, Bints As.iv, pi. 63 (1861); Hume $ 

 Senders. Lah. to Yark. p. 224; Scully, 8. F. iv, p. 150; Hume, 

 Cat., no. 591 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 68 ; Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 451 ; 

 Skarpe, Cat. B. M. x, p. 479, pi. v, figs. 3, 4 ; Barms, Birds Bom. 

 p. 236; Gates in Hume's N. fy E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 201. 



Motacilla dukhunensis. Sykes, apud Jerd. B. I. ii, p. 218. 



Motacilla cashmeriensis, Brooks, P. A. S. B. 1871, p. 210; id. J. A. 

 S. B. xli, pt. ii, p. 82 ; xliii, pt. ii, p. 250; id. S. F. ii, p. 456. 



The, Black-faced Wagtail, Jerd. ; Dhobin, Hind. 



Coloration. In normal summer plumage, the forehead, anterior 

 portion of crown, the upper part of the lores, round the eye, and 

 a broad supercilium are white ; remainder of the head, nape, hind 

 neck, the neck all round, and the lower plumage from the chin to 

 the upper breast black ; rest of lower plumage white ; upper 

 plumage grey turning to black on the upper tail-coverts ; lesser 

 wing-coverts grey ; median and greater coverts entirely white in 

 the closed wing ; quills dark brown, the inner webs largely white 

 and the outer margined with white ; the later secondaries with 

 the outer webs almost entirely white ; the two outer pairs of tail- 

 feathers white, the others black. 



In winter plumage, the chin and throat become white, but a 

 black moustachial streak remains dividing the white of the throat 

 from the white round the eye ; the ear-coverts are always black ; 

 the feathers of the lower throat have their bases white. 



The young have the whole upper plumage dull grey, and throat 

 and breast dull brownish ; the wings and tail are from the first 

 very similar to the same parts in the adult. The black plumage 

 of the head and neck is assumed very slowly and probably not 

 completely till the second spring. 



Iris blackish brown ; legs, feet, and bill black (Butler). 



Length about 8 ; tail 3-6 ; wing 3'6 ; tarsus -9 ; bill from 

 gape '65. 



Distribution. A winter visitor .to the whole of India proper down to 



