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parts with throat and cheeks rich yellow, the sides of the breast and flanks 

 olive-green, and the neck with dusky greenish spots ; bill and legs black ; 

 iris dark brown. Culmen 0'55, wing 3'5, tail 2'9, tarsus TO inch. 



Hob. Eastern Siberia, Dauria, the Kurile Islands, China, and 

 Formosa, wintering in the Malay peninsula. 



In habits it is said to resemble M. rail, and,' like that species, is 

 usually seen near water. It breeds in the island of Saghalien, 

 where it is common ; but so far as I know there are no 

 particulars published relative to its nidification. 



311. WHITE-HEADED WAGTAIL. 

 MOTACILLA LEUCOCEPHALA. 



Motacilla leucocephala, (Prjev.) Nov. vid. ptitz. Centr. Asie, Zap. Imp. 

 Akad. Nayk. Iv. p. 85 (1887) ; Pleske, Prjevalsky's Reisen, Vogel, 

 p. 186, Taf. x. figs. 3, 4. 



ad. Head, chin, and cheeks white ; hinder part of head and nape 

 smoke-grey ; upper parts yellowish olivaceous ; throat, breast, and under 

 parts citron-yellovr ; two pale bands across the wings. Culmen 0'6, wing 

 3'25, tail 2'92, tarsus I'O inch. The female has the upper parts smoke-grey, 

 the back tinged with brown and the rump with olive-green ; supercilium, 

 cheeks, chin, and throat pure white ; rest of under parts white washed with 

 yellowish. 



Hcib. Dzungaria. 



Nothing is known of this Wagtail beyond that Prjevalsky 

 met with it on the spring passage on the Urungu river and in 

 the Southern Altai, where it was in small parties of 5 to 10 

 individuals. In August he again met with it on the Tosso-nor 

 in Tsaidam. 



LIMONODROMUS, Gould, 1862. 



312. FOREST WAGTAIL. 

 LIMONODROMUS INDICUS. 



Limonidromus mdicus, (Gmel.) Syst. Nat. i. p. 962 (1788) ; Gould, B. of 

 Asia, iv. pi. 67 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Br. Mus. x. p. 532 ; Gates, F. 

 Brit Ind. Birds, ii. 300. 



Uzhalla-jitta, Tel. 



ad. (India). Upper parts dull "olive-green, under parts with chin 

 throat, cheeks, and supercilium yellowish white ; tail-coverts blackish 

 brown ; wings with two yellowish white bands across the coverts ; quills 

 with a patch of yellowish white at base of outer web ; central rectrices 

 olive-green, the outer nearly all white, the rest blackish brown ; two 

 black bands across the breast, the lower broken in the middle , bill 



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