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Motacilla maderaspatana, Brisson [picata, Franklin ; variegata, 

 Sykes) . This, so far as I have seen, is peculiar to India proper, 

 with Ceylon, its range not extending to Lower Bengal (although 

 Calcutta is assigned as a habitat in the ' Revue Zoologique ') 

 nor to the countries eastward; and though Dr. Jerdon men- 

 tions his having '' found it in Sikhim," where I much suspect 

 that he mistook for it the M. hodgsoni. I have only seen 

 it alive in captivity. As a cage bird, it is particularly bold 

 and defiant, snapping fiercely at a finger held to it, and 

 frequently uttering a pleasing and sustained song, which is far 

 superior in quality to that of any other Wagtail known to me. 



M. luzoniensis, Scopoli {alboides, Hodgson; leucopsis, Gould). 

 The only species found in Bengal and in the Burmese countries, 

 so far as I have seen. 



M. hodgsoni, G. B. Gray. Nearly similar to the last, but the 

 white throat much contracted, and a well-defined black mous- 

 tachial line. I did not properly distinguish this when in India, 

 nor has Dr. Jerdon done so, though there are one or more speci- 

 mens in the Calcutta Museum received from Darjeeling. Mr. 

 Gould first called my attention to its distinctness, having seen 

 only the one specimen in his possession ; but I found two skins 

 in the British Museum, labelled with the name here adopted. 

 All are from the S.E. Himalaya (Nepal and Sikhim). 



M. personata, Gould {M. duchunensis, apud Jerdon, ' Birds of 

 India,* but corrected in the Appendix). This, I suspect, belongs 

 principally to Upper and Western India. 



M. duchunensis, Sykes. Like the European M. alba, but 

 somewhat larger, and with considerably more white on the wings. 

 This remains to be identified elsewhere than in Southern India 

 and Ceylon. 



Budytes calcarata (et citr'eoloides) , Hodgson {B. citreola of 

 India, auctorum). This fine species has the habitat of a Motacilla 

 or Water- Wagtail, and is remarkable also for its black back in 

 summer plumage, in this exhibiting a further resemblance to 

 certain true MotacillcB. 



B. melanocephala, Licht. (also of Sykes ; and B. heema, Sykes, 

 winter dress). West and South India, Afghanistan, &c.; but 

 not Lower Bengal. 



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