48 BRITISH BIRDS. 



GENUS XXV. TICHODROMA, Iliger (1811.) 

 Bill slender, rather long, very slightly decurved. Tail 

 moderate, square, not used when climbing. Wings broad, 

 moderately long. 



58. Tiehodroma muraria (Linn.)- WALL-CREEPER. 



Hab. Southern-temperate regions of the Old World ; 

 inhabiting mountain ranges of Europe, north to the Vosges 

 and the Carpathians ; in Asia extending eastward to 

 China. 



An extremely rare straggler to England. One was 

 shot, May 8th, 1872, in Lancashire and recorded by 

 Mr. F. S. Mitchell. Previously Willughby (Orn. 1576) 

 observes that it is said to have occurred in England, and 

 one shot in Norfolk, in 1 792, is found described in a letter 

 from Robert Marsham to Gilbert White (Trans. Nort. and 

 Nor. Nat. Soc., 1876). The adult is conspicuous from its 

 having the wing-coverts and the basal halves of outer webs 

 of primaries deep crimson. 



Family BXotacillidaB. 



GENUS XXVI MOTACILLA, Linnaus (1766) 

 Bill moderate, slender, almost straight, tip oi upper 

 mandible indistinctly notched. Wrings moderate ; first 

 primary, very minute, 3rd, or 4th longest ; inner 

 secondaries very long. Tail long, feathers almost equal in 

 length. Tarsus rather long ; claws moderate. 



59. Motaeilla alba, Linn. WHITE WAGTAIL. 



Hab. Northern regions of Old World ; in Europe north 

 nearly to North Cape, south to Asia Minor and extreme 

 North of Africa. Leaves North Europe in winter. 



Male : forehead and sides of head and neck as far as 



