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593 for.— Budytes flavus, Lin. The Grey-headed 



Field Wagtail. 



Cold weather visitant. Rare. I obtained a single specimen 

 in Belgaum, feeding ronnd the edge of one of the night-soil 

 pits, but have no other record of its occurrence throughout 

 the region. I cannot now be certain whether this was the 

 true flayus or the Indian form now often separated as dubius, 

 but which Mr. Hume informs me must, if so separated, stand 

 as B. beema., Sykes, P. Z. S., 1832, p. 90. 



? 594.— Budytes calcaratus, Hodgs. The Black- 

 backed Yellow Wagtail. 



Cold weather visitant. Mr. Fairbank remarks that, "it 

 occurs sparingly about Nagar aad Khandala in beds of streams 

 and other damp places," and Major Lloyd includes it in his 

 list of Konkan species, but Mr. Vidal has not met with it in 

 Ratuagiri. I have no other record of its occurrence through- 

 out the region. Can Mr. Fairbank have mistaken it for the 

 next species, which is not included in either of his lists, and 

 which is common ? 



594 bis.— Budytes citreolus, Pall. The Grey-backed 



Yellow Wagtail. 



Cold weather visitant. Common, as a rule, in suitable 

 localities throughout the region, affecting rice fields and 

 swampy ground. Mr. Vidal does not mention it from Ratna- 

 giri, but I fancy it must occur there. It is abundant about 

 Belgaum, and Messrs. Wenden and Davidson record it as 

 common throughout the Deccan districts. 



595.— Limonidromus indicus, Gm. The Eorest 

 Wagtail. 



Rare. Probably only a cold weather visitant. Mr. Fairbank 

 records it from Mahableshwar and the Goa frontier, Mr. 

 Vidal from Rajapur and Vengurla in the south of Ratnagiri, 

 Mr. Laird procured specimens at Nagargali, a few miles 

 south-west of Belgaum, and I obtained a single specimen in 

 Belgaum. It belougs strictly to the forest tracts. 



?596.— Anthus maculatus, Hodgs. The Indian Tree- 

 Pipit. 



Cold weather visitant. Messrs. Davidson and Wenden, and 

 Mr. Fairbank, record this species as common, and possibly such 

 may be the case, as Jerdon says, " it occurs all over India/' 

 but is it not possible that they have mistaken A. trivialis for 



