236 MOTACILLINiE. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



In summer plumage, the occiput, nape, and upper parts 

 generally deep black, also a large patch on the breast ; a broad 

 frontal band, sides of head (including the eye) and neck ? large 

 wing-patch, the two outermost tail-feathers on each side, and the 

 lower parts, white. 



In winter plumage, the back, shoulder, and rump are ashy-grey, 

 the occiput, nape, and breast-band alone being black. 



The female is a trifle smaller than the male, and the black 

 perhaps is not quite so deep. 



The White-faced Wagtail is, I believe, not uncommon at and 

 near Mhow. It is of course a cold weather visitant only. 



Motacilla personata, Gould. 



591. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, p. 218 ; (M. dukhunensis, 



Sykes) ; Butler, Deccan ; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411 ; Murray's 



Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 165 ;Swinhoe and Barnes, Central 



India ; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 



THE BLACK-FACED WAGTAIL. 



Length, 7'5 to 8 ; wing, 3'6 to 37 ; tail, 4*5 to 475 ; bill at 

 front, 075. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



In summer plumage, the back and scapulars, pale grey ; 

 occiput, nape, wings, and tail, black ; a supercilium, wing-patch, 

 and outermost tail-feathers, white ; beneath, the throat, neck, 

 and breast, black, the rest white ; primaries are dusky, edged with 

 white, and the upper tail-coverts ashy, edged with black. 



In winter dress, the chin, throat, and beneath the eye, are white, 

 leaving only a small patch of black on the breast ; the occiput 

 and nape are also grey, the white wing-patch smaller ; the coverts 

 and secondaries also grey, edged paler. 



With the exception perhaps of Guzerat, the Black-faced 

 Wagtail is generally distributed throughout the district during 

 the cold weather. 



Motacilla dukhunensis, SyTces. 



5916k Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 489 ; Deccan, 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 410. 



SYKES' GREY AND BLACK WAGTAIL. 



Length, 7'5 to 8 ; wing, 3'6 to 37 ; tail, 4'5 to 475 ; bill at 

 front, 075. 



Bill black ; irides brown ; legs black. 



Mr. Hume points out, Stray Feathers, Vol. I, p. 30, that " the 

 only ready and unfailing diagnosis of the two species," ie, 

 personata and dukhunensis, " is that, in both sexes, and at all 

 seasons, the ear-coverts' and whole aural region are in personata 

 black, blackish or dark-grey ; in dukhunensis, pure white or 

 greyish or sordid-white." This marked difference, coupled with 

 the conspicuously greater amount of white on the wings of 



