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is extremely common in Pegu, and if it assumes a black throat 
in summer, a certain proportion of the specimens shot in 
September and April would shew traces, at any rate, of this 
eolour on the throat. Dukhunensis invariably shows a good 
deal of its breeding plumage in those months, so does 
ocularis. Now the only specimens of the leucopsis type that 
I have been able to shoot with black throat, during the course 
of some years, are eight in number. It is preposterous 
to suppose that if lewcopsis ever assumes a black throat, 
specimens should be so rare especially when it is remembered. 
that the bird comes in very early, and leaves very late.* 
I am bound to believe that feliz is a good species, a rare 
one in Pegu, but common in some parts of China. It pro- 
bably does not extend to India; but it would be extremely 
interesting to go through a large series of Indian killed birds, 
to ascertain whether feliz does occur, and if it does, in what 
proportion compared with the true /eucopsis. 
The plumage and the changes of plumage of feliz appear 
not to differ from those of the common species, except in 
regard to the throat patch. The wing-coverts are perhaps 
more white, but there are no other constant differences. 
In summer, feliz probably has the whole chin black, and to 
this bird Mr. Swinhoe applied the name sechuensis. 
I find that feliz is a smaller bird than leucopsis, The wing 
runs from 3°2 to 357 in my specimens. 
277.—Motacilla dukhunensis, Sykes. (591 bis.) 
Common in Lower Pegu, but not nearly so much so as 
leucopsis. 
278.—Motacilla ocularis, Swink. (591 quat.) 
Very common along the banks of the Canal, and less so in 
and they leave by the end of March. This is our experience. We have, therefore, 
very few April birds, only seven altogether, and they are one and all “ felix.” 
Now in the face of the evidence afforded by this gigantic series, it will not be 
sufficient to show one or two “felix” killed between the 1st September and the 
15th February, or one or two Jeucopsis killed later than the 18th March, because, 
as every one knows, who has studied this group of black, white and grey Wagtails, 
these birds area little irregular in their changes of plumage; not only are some 
exceptional birds considerably earlier and later than the rest, but here and there 
you come across individuals that retain the breeding plumage right through the 
year, (I have a hodgsoni killed on the 8rd January in the fullest breeding plumage) 
while others again seem not to assume the breeding plumage at all, these being, 
we think, backward late or sickly birds of the last year. 
Lhope Mr. Oates will give us the dates of all his felix, and also state how many 
leucopsis, as defined by him, he had killed in April, I may here note that Iam 
inclined to believe that Motacilla francisi, Swinh, P. Z. S., 1870, 123, is nothing 
but M. hodgsoni.—Ep., S. F. 
* Yes; but is this a fact? It comes in early no doubt, by the first week in Sep- 
tember, but according to our experience 999 out of every 1,000 have; in most years, 
left by the 1st of April.—Ep., S. F. 
ee = a birds, more or less developed feliv,the wings run from 3°3 to 3'72.— 
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