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per sonata, as compared with those ofdukkunensis, ought to render 

 the separation of any specimens of the two species comparatively 

 easy. 



This Wagtail is common during the cold season in both the 

 Doccan and Guzerat. It also occurs at Neemuch in Raj pu tana. 



Motacilla alba, Lin. 



59Iter. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 166 ; Swinho e 

 and Barnes, Central India; Ibis, 1885, p. 127. 



THE EUROPEAN WHITE-FACED WAGTAIL. 



Length, 7'5 to 8 ; wing, 375 ; tail, 475. 



Bill black ; irides dark-brown ; legs black. 



Front of the head, lores, all round the eye, ear-coverts, cheeks, 

 and a broad stripe down the sides of the neck, white, as also the 

 belly, vent and under tail-coverts ; back of the head and nape, 

 chin, throat and breast, black ; back and scapulars darker-grey 

 than in personata ; upper tail-coverts dark-brown, a few feathers 

 margined white ; primaries dusky-brown, the outer webs darker, 

 with a very faint whitish edge ; secondaries, . tertiaries, and inner 

 webs of the median greater-coverts, dark brown, nearly black, 

 all broadly edged white on their outer webs, and except the 

 primaries, tipped with white ; the inner webs of the primaries 

 and secondaries margined for their basal half with white ; lesser 

 wing-coverts concolorous with the back ; tail black, the two outer- 

 most feathers white, except a dark brown margin for nearly 

 three-fourths their length on their inner webs, and in some speci- 

 mens on the outer web near the shaft ; under wing and thigh- 

 coverts white, the latter with some dark streaks. 



The European White-faced Wagtail is a common cold weather 

 visitant to Sind. It is by many considered identical with dukhu- 

 nensis. 



GENUS, Calobates, Kan p. 



Bill more slender than in motacilla ; wings slightly shorter, 

 and tertials less elongated ; tarsus shorter and pale colored ; hind- 

 toe short, with the claw a little longer and moderately curved ; 

 otherwise as in motacilla. 



Calobates melanope, Pall 



592. G. sulphurea, Bech. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 

 p. 220 ; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 489 ; 

 Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 592 ; (0. boarula, Penn.) 

 Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 166 ; Motacilla mela- 

 nope, Pall. ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 

 p. 127. 



THE GREY AND YELLOW WAGTAIL. 

 Length, 7'5 ; wing, 2'25 ; tail, 3*5 ; tarsus, 0*8 ; bill at front, 



0-45. 



