ioo LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY. 



Budytes rayi, Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 212 (1839). 



Motacilla rayi, Newt. ed. Yarn, i., p. 564 (1874). 



Motadlla raii y Dresser, B. Eur., h'L, p. 277, pi. 131 (1875); 

 B. O. U. List. Br. B., p. 31 (1883); Seeb., Br. B., ii., 

 p. 212 (1884); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. vi. (1888); 

 Saunders, Man., p. 121 (1889). 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. General colour olive-yellow 

 above, and bright yellow below; the under tail-coverts bright 

 yellow like the breast ; head also bright yellow, as well as the 

 eyebrow, the hinder crown like the back. Total length, 6-3 

 inches; culmen, 0-5; wing, 3*15; tail, 27; tarsus, 0-9. 



Adult Female Similar to the male, but not so bright in 

 colour, and having the forehead greenish like the head, instea 

 of being bright yellow as in the male. 



Adults in Winter Plumage. Greener than in summer, the fore 

 head like the rest of the upper parts : a broad yellow eyebrow 

 ear-coverts greenish; under-surface of body yellow, with 

 slight tinge of saffron on the breast. 



Young Birds. Olive-brown above, more yellow on the lowe 

 back and upper tail-coverts; a broad eyebrow of pale fawn 

 colour ; ear-coverts brown ; chin and cheeks whitish ; throa 

 and chest pale fawn-colour, with dusky spots on the latter 

 lower flanks, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, brigh 

 yellow. 



Eange in Great Britain. A summer visitor only, breeding i 

 most parts of England and the south of Scotland, as well a 

 near Lough Neagh and the neighbourhood of Dublin in Ire 

 land. It is not known to breed west of Somersetshire, an 

 occurs only on migration in our south-western counties, 

 spring and autumn it is a very common migrant on the land 

 near the coast. 



Eange outside the British Islands. The Yellow Wagtail 

 chiefly a western bird, nesting in the north of France, bu 

 elsewhere only known as a migrant on its way to or from it 

 winter home in Western Africa. Specimens have been sen 

 from the Zambesi and the Transvaal, but these may b 

 migrants from Turkestan or Southern Russia, where the Yellow 

 Wagtail is also found, and it is most probable that the line 



