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tail black, the former with whitish margins, the outer tail-feathers nearly 

 white ; bill and legs black ; iris dark brown. Culmen 0'65, wing 3'33, 

 tail 3-2, tarsus 1'05, hind j toe with claw 07 inch. The female has the 

 crown and nape dull yellowish grey, tinged with brown, the back browner ; 

 no black collar ; wings and tail duller ; superciliary line, lores, throat, and 

 under parts canary -yellow. The : young bird has the crown nape and 

 upper parts dull grey washed with yellowish brown, the under parts dull 

 white tinged, with primrose, forehead and supercilium yellowish white, and 

 the lower throat tinged with yellow and marked with greyish brown. In 

 the winter the male resembles the female above described but is darker 

 above, the forehead is yellow, the supercilium broader, the lower breast 

 and abdomen primrose-yellow, and there are a few black marks on the 

 lower throat. 



Hob. North-east Europe and Siberia as far east as Lake 

 Baikal and the Ussuri ; Central Asia ; China ; wintering in the 

 plains of India. 



In general habits it differs but little from its allies, but 

 affects chiefly marshy, humid localities, and it is but seldom 

 seen in company with other species of Wagtails. Nidification 

 commences late in May or in June, and the nest, which is 

 constructed of grass-bents usually, but not always, lined with 

 hair and a feather or two, is placed on the ground, well hidden 

 in the marsh grass or under a low bush, and the eggs, usually 

 5 or 6 in number, are deposited late in June, and resemble 

 those of M. flava, but are rather more stone-buff in tinge, and 

 measure about 075 by 0'60. 



304. HODGSON'S YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. 

 MOTACILLA CITREOLOIDES. 



Motacilla citreoloides, (Hodgs.) in Gray's Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844) ; 

 Gould, B. of Asia, iv. pi. 64 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x, p. 507 ; 

 Gates, F. Brit. Ind. Birds, ii. p. 299 ; Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs. 

 fide Blyth, Ibis. 1865, p. 49. 



Pani-ka-pilkya , Hindu. 



< ad. (Turkestan). Differs from M. citreola in having in summer the 

 back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep black ; in the winter it 

 resembles M. citreola more closely, but has the upper parts darker and 

 intermixed with black. The young resemble those of M. citreola so 

 closely that I cannot see how they can always be distinguished. 



Hal. The Altai mountains, Turkestan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, 

 wintering on the southern slopes of the Himalayas and the 



