60 Lieut. R. G. Wardlaw-Ramsay’s 
nests found were shallow cups, composed entirely of dried 
grass, and situated in small bushes, frequently juniper, about 
21 feet from the ground. The eggs vary much both in size 
and colour—some being long ovals, nearly pure white, spotted 
with pale brown towards the larger end, and others of a much 
rounder form, and a pale greenish white, thickly spotted in a 
broad zone near the thicker end and smeared with very pale 
brown, or else spotted and smeared with olive-brown over the 
whole of the thicker end. 
(592) Moracriia (CaLoBAaTES) MELANOPE. 
Motacilla melanope, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, in. p. 696. 
This Wagtail was common throughout the summer, and 
commenced to breed in May. 
On the 5th June I found a nest in the roots of a tree 
which was lying in the dry bed of the stream near our camp; 
it contained four young ones just hatched and one addled 
egg, which I secured with the old bird. 
(591) MoraciLia PERSONATA. 
Motacilla personata, Gould, B. of Asia, pt. xii. 
-The masked Wagtail (Motacilla alba of my first paper, 
Ibis, 1879, p. 448) was abundant and was breeding through- 
out May and June. On the 5th June I found a nest in an 
exactly similar position to that described above. It con- 
tained five young birds, which had been hatched a few days. 
On returning to the nest on the 28th of the same month the 
young had flown, and a second laying of three eggs was in 
the nest. In course of preserving the female which I shot 
I found in her a fourth egg, ready for laying. Another nest 
was placed in a recess under a large stone near the edge of 
the water. 
At Shalofzan, in the Kurrum valley, in June I saw a pair 
of black-backed Wagtails, probably M. luzoniensis. 
(597) ANTHUS TRIVIALIS. 
Alauda trivialis, Linn. Syst. Nat. 1. p. 288. no. 5 (1766, 
ex Brisson). 
Only one pair seen in the Hariab district, the female of 
which was shot on the 5th May. 
