80 MOTACILLIDJI. 



Motacilla capensis, Linn. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 20.) 



Motacilla capensis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxv. fig. 3 (1845-54) ; 

 Gurney, Ibis, 1860, p. 208 ; Ay res, Ibis, 1869, p. 292 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Layard, Birds 8. Africa, p. 547 (1875-84) ; Butler, Feilden $ Reid, 

 Zool. 1882, p. 337 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 493 (1885) ; 

 Nehrk. Kat. JEiersamml. p. 91 (1899) ; Haagner, Ibis, 1901, p. 15; 

 Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 140 (1906). 



Eggs of the Cape Wagtail are of a pointed oval form and 

 moderately glossy. They are cream-colour or greyish-white, 

 freckled, especially at the broad end, with pale grey or light 

 brown. On some eggs the markings are so faint that they are 

 hardly noticeable. Specimens measure from "76 to '85 in length, 

 and from -58 to *61 in breadth. 



4. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.J. 



5. Transvaal, October ( T. Ayres : Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll}. 

 2. 14-Streams, Vaal River, November. R. B. Woosnam, Esq. [0.]. 



2. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [C.]. 



1. Ladysmith, 18th November. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



3. Blue Krantz, Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.J. 

 3. Pondoland. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Cape Colony. Gould Coll. 



2. Cape Colony ( T. Atmore : Tris- Crowlev Bequest. 



tram Coll}. 



1. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



3. Deelfontein, 4th Nov. (E. Set- Col. Sloggett [P.]. 



mund). 



3. Deelfontein, 8th Dec. (E. S.). Col. Sloggett [P.], 



3. Kuruman, 17th Dec. R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [C.]. 



Motacilla clara, Sharpe. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 13.) 



Motacilla longicauda, Rupp. (nee Gmel.), Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 



p. 495 (1885) : Shelley, Birds Afr. ii. p. 274 (1900) ; Stark, Birds 



S. Afr. i. p. 257 (1900). 

 Motacilla clara, Sharpe, Hand-L v. p. 140 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Long-tailed Pied Wagtail are of a pointed oval 

 form and slightly glossed. The ground-colour is white, densely 

 freckled with greyish-brown and lavender-grey ; one example has a 

 few black hair-lines at the larger end. They measure respectively 

 79 by -6 and -81 by '59. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



