MOTACILLINJE. 241 



, The Yellow-headed Wagtail is very common during the cold 

 season in Sind, affecting paddy fields, edges of marshes, and banks 

 of rivers and canals, 



Budytes citreola, Pall. 



5946is. Butler, Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411; Murray's 

 Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 169 ; Motacilla citreola, Pall, ; 

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



THE GREY-BACKED YELLOW WAGTAIL. 

 % Length, 7'1 ; wing, 3' 18 ; tail, 275 ; bill at front, 0'4, 

 Bill pale-brown ; irides brown ; legs pale brown. 

 Forehead, crown of head, sides of the face, ear-coverts, chin, 

 throat, breast, and entire under parts bright yellow, paler on 

 the vent, and nearly white on the under tail-coverts ; nape, and 

 upper back, black ; lower back and scapulars dark-grey ; rump 

 and upper tail-coverts pale or dark-brown or yellowish-green, 

 the feathers edged with greenish ; primaries and secondaries 

 dusky ; tertiaries dark brown ; the primaries and secondaries 

 faintly edged and tipped with white, and the tertiaries broadly so, 

 all basally white on their inner webs ; lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back and tipped brown ; median and greater-coverts brown, 

 edged with white, and forming two conspicuous white or yellowish- 

 white bands ; the second band oblique in the closed wing, being 

 formed by the white of the greater coverts, and that of the inner- 

 most tertiaries, the longest of which is nearly equal in length with 

 the fourth primary ; under wing-coverts white ; tail black, the 

 feathers with a faint tinge of whitish on their outer webs; the 

 two outermost tail-feathers on each side white, with a broad 

 margin on their inner webs, to about half an inch from the tip ; 

 the next black, with the edge of the outer web and tip white. 



The Grey-backed Yellow Wagtail is a common cold weather 

 visitant to the Deccan, Kajputana, and also in a lesser degree to 

 Sind. 



GENUS, Limonidromus. 



Similar characters to Budytes, but with the short hind-claw of 

 MotaciUa. 



Limonidromus indicus, Gm. 



595. Nemoricola indica, Gm. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 



p. 226 ; Butler, Deccan; Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 411. 

 THE BLACK-BREASTED WAGTAIL. 



Length, 6*25; expanse, 10; wing, 3'12; tail, 2 '6 ; tarsus, 0'9; 

 bill at front, 0'48. 



Bill dusky, beneath whitish ; legs whitish, tinged with purplish- 

 brown. 



Plumage above greenish olive-brown, beneath yellowish ; 

 supercilium white ; a double black band on the breast, the lower 

 one not complete in the centre, which unites laterally with the 



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