242 MOTACILLISLE. 



upper one ; wings blackish, with two broad white bands, and a 

 third at the base of the primaries, a fourth near the tips of the 

 secondaries, continued along the edge of the longest tertiary ; 

 tail with the middle feathers brown, the next dusky, the outer- 

 most white, with generally a brown outer margin and blackish 

 base, the penultimate with white only on its terminal half. 



The Black-breasted Wagtail occurs sparingly in the forest 

 tracts of the Deccan during the cold season ; it has not been 

 recorded from elsewhere within our limits. 



GENUS, Anthus, Bechst. 



Bill straight, short, and stouter than in Budytes ; wings, first 

 to third quills longest ; plumage spotted ; hind-claw short and 

 curved. 



Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. 



596. Pipastes agilis, Sykes. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 



p. 228; Butler, Guzerat ; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 491. 

 THE INDIAN TREE PIPIT. 



Length, 6'5 ; expanse, 11 ; wing, 3'5 ; tail, 275 ; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill 

 from gape, 07. 



Bill dusky, fleshy beneath ; irides dark-brown ; legs pale fleshy- 

 brown. 



In winter plumage above fine greenish-olive, with strongly 

 marked dusky streaks on the crown, and some slight dark 

 centres to the dorsal feathers ; beneath white, with a faint 

 fulvous tinge, with large dark spots on the throat, breast, and 

 flanks ; wing-coverts dark-brown ; the median with yellowish- 

 white tips ; the greater-coverts broadly edged with olive ; the 

 quills brown, edged with olive ; tail with the outermost feathers 

 white terminally, and for the greater part of both webs ; the 

 penultimate with a white tip ; central feathers olive-brown ; 

 the intermediate ones brown, with olive edgings. 



In summer plumage the upper parts are more brown and less 

 olive, more broadly streaked with dusky centres, and the under 

 p irts always pale fulvescent, passing to white on the abdomen 

 and lower tail-coverts. 



During the cold season the Indian Tree Pipit is very common 

 in Guzerat and Rajputana; its occurrence in the Deccan has 

 only doubtfully been recorded. 



Anthus trivialis, Lin. 



597. Pipastes arbor em, Bech. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. II, 

 p. 230; Butler, Guzerat; Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 490; 

 Deccan, Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 412 ; Anthus arboreus, 

 Bechst; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 170 ; Swinhoe 

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



THE EUROPEAN TREE PIPIT. 

 Length, 6'5 ; wing, 3*5 ; tail, 2'5; tarsus, 0'8 ; bill at front, 0*43 



