39^ WHITE, AND YELLOW WAGTAIL^ 



WAGTAIL. Ge-4. Birds. LL 



White, Br. Zool. ii. N" 142. 



M. Alba^ Aria, Faun. Suec. N° 2J2.. — Latham, ii. 395. 



La Lavandiere, De Buffm, v. 25 1. — PL Enl. 652.— Lev. Mus — Bl. Mus. 



'. T. With head, back, and neck, black: cheek, front, and chin, 

 white : belly white : primaries dufky : tail long, dufky, with 

 part of the webs white. 



Inhabits as high as Iceland^ the Feroe IJles, and Drontheim *. It is 

 a bird of augury with the Swedifi farmers ; who have a proverb relative 

 to this and the Wheat-ear, which is another bird of direction : 

 " When you fee the Wagtail return, you may turn your fheep into 

 " the fields ; and when you fee the Wheat-ear, you may fow youE 

 « grain f." 



It is common in RuJJiay Sibiria,, and Kamtfchatka, but does not ex^- 

 tend to the arftic regions. 



Placi. 



F. Yellow Wagtail, Br. Zool. i. N" 143. 



M. Flava. Sadefarla, Faun. Suee. N° 253. — Latham, ii. 400. 



La Bergeronette grife, De Buffhn, v. 261. — PI. Enl. 6]j^, — Lev. Mus. 



\X^. T. With crown and upper part of the body of an olive-green J 

 breaft and lower part of the body of a rich yellow : throat 

 fpotted with black. In the Female thofe black fpots are wanting: 

 the other colors are alfo much more obfcure. 

 Place, Inhabits Sweden ; but not higher. Migrates like the former. Com?^ 



mon in all parts of RtiJJia, Sibiria, and even Kamtfchatka. 



* Av. NiJr. Emm. MS. 



t Stil Li NG fleet's 2>fl(!?/, 2d ed. 2650;. 



Yellow- 



