1870.] PIED WAGTAILS OF CHINA. 18 
chin also quite black. The two forms are otherwise so alike that I 
cannot possibly separate them specifically, but will distinguish the 
blackest bird as M. felix, var. sechuenensis (from Szechuen, the 
province in which it occurred). 
From the Amoor, V. Schrenck describes a Wagtail as M. alba, 
var. paradoxa, that looks like another race of this section. 
We come, lastly, to an ally of this black-backed group, but with 
somewhat the face of Mr. Gould’s grey-backed M. personata of 
India (Birds of Asia, part 13), for which I beg to propose the name 
MorTacILLA FRANCISI, sp. nov. 
Length of wing 3°55, of tail 3-7, of tarse -93. General colour 
the same as in M. felix. Its main difference lies in the black being 
more advanced towards the forehead in a line with the front corner of 
the eye, then stretching back, leaving a white eyebrow and advancing 
at a sharp angle over the ear-coverts to the rictus of the bill; an 
intervening border between it and the eye and the throat white. 
Fig. 3. 

Motacilla francisi. 
I got an adult male of this species on the 19th May last, near 
Chungking city in Szechuen. I had previously got it at Hainan in 
undeveloped plumage ; but in this plumage the black markings on 
the cheeks and on the dotted line under the eye are sufficient to 
distinguish it from M. felix, which is otherwise so like it. In the 
Hainan specimen the third outer tail-feather has a long white blotch 
of white on its inner web, and the wings are more broadly edged 
with white than in the Szechuen bird. A second example from 
Hainan, more immature still, wants the tail-blotch, but shows some 
dark markings on the cheeks. I consequently take the Hainan and 
Szechuen birds to be the same. I have dedicated this species to 
Mr. Robert Francis, one of the two delegates of the Shanghai Cham- 
ber of Commerce who accompanied me up the Yangtsze. 
