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53(5 Birds of Celebes: Motacillidae. 



Adult (winter plumage). Veiy like the spring plumage, but the cliin and throat white, the 

 yellow of the under surface paler (Manado tua, 19. IV. 93; Xat. Coll. — C 12143). 



Eggs. 5, sometimes 6; white, tinted with rose, with subjacent spots of grey, and overlying 

 streaks and httle blotches of olivaceous brown; or wliite, tinted with yellowish, with 

 superjacent spots of reddish brown of Httle intensity. Size 18.7 X 14.5 mm (Tacz. e 6). 

 See, also, Hume d 10. 



Nest. Mr. Brooks remarks: "The situation chosen for the nest is different, and C. melanope 

 (the eastern one) is not nearly such a noisy bird when breeding as C. sidphnrea. 

 One nest that I found in Cashmere, at Kagan, was placed in a small bush on an 

 island in the Sind river, about 5 feet above the ground. The situation was that of 

 a Finch's nest! It was composed of moss, fibres, etc., and lined with hair, a neat 

 compact nest, and placed in the forks of the branches near the top of the bush" (d 10). 

 A ne.st described by Taczanowski (e 6) was placed in a bed of flax. 



Breeding time. The bird breeds in May and June (Hume d 10, Godlewski e 6). 



Distribution. East Siberia (Gmelin, Middendorff e 6)\ Commodore Is. (Stejneger e 6); 

 Kurile Is. (Snow i 2]\ Japan (Cassin, Siebold, etc. / 2, d 4]\ Loochoo Is. (Pryer 

 i 2, Hoist,/ 5); Corea (Kalinowski e 6, Campb. y 2); China (Swinhoe el, David 

 e 2, etc.); Hainan and Formosa (Swinhoe el); Tian-Shan (Bonvalot & Pr. d'Or- 

 leans d 18); Himalayas (Brooks d 10); Afghanistan (W. Ramsay d W); Indian 

 Peninsula (Gates, etc., e 4, d 2); Ceylon (Legge d 2, Bligh d 7); Andamans and 

 Nicobars (Davison d 2); Burmah (Gates e 4); Tenasserim (Davison e 4); Malay 

 Peninsula (Cantor, etc. d 4, e 4, d 11); Sumatra (RaffL, Buxton, Beccari e 3, 

 Modigliani d 15); Nias (Kannegieter d 23); Java ("Wallace d 4); Lombok (Vor- 

 derman d 21); Borneo (Doria & Beccari e 3, Wallace, etc. d 8); Philippines — 

 Palawan (Steere d 12), Luzon, Cebu, Leyte (Meyer, Everett d 3), Guimaras, Panay, 

 Negros, Samar, Basilan (Steere d 12), Mindanao (Everett d .3, Steere d 12), Sooloo, 

 Tawi Tawi, Tablas, Romblon, Sibuyan, Masbate (Bourns & Worcester rf iS); North 

 Celebes (Fischer g 1, g 2, Platen in Mus. Nehrk., Nat. Coll. in Dresd. Mus., 

 Sarasin Coll.), South Celebes (Everett i 7); Morty, Ternate, Batchian, Amboina, 

 Waigiou (e .3, e 5); Mount Arfak, New Guinea (Meyer h 1, e 3). 



As in the West, so also in the East, the Grey Wagtail is a migrant, and 

 in this part of its range it proceeds to the East India Islands , Further India, 

 India and Ceylon in winter. Taczanowski records the observations of 

 V. Schrenck, Dybowski, Godlewski and Kalinowski as to its breeding 

 in Corea and various parts of East Siberia, but not in the Arctic Region; Mr. 

 Brooks obtained its nest in Cashmere, and Major Wardlaw Ramsay in 

 Afghanistan It passes through Central China on migration in spring and autumn, 

 as Mr. Styan shows (d 14); but Mr. De La Touche (d 16) says it winters 

 in South China, and this also seems to be the case in the Loochoo Islands 

 from where Seebohm (j 3) records two specimens killed by Mr. Hoist in 

 January. It reaches the East India Islands in winter in much smaller numbers 

 than Motacilla fiava ; nevertheless in the last twenty years the bird has turned 

 up in a continuous line of localities from Luzon to New Guinea. Its chief 

 winter-quarters would appear to be India, Burmah and Ceylon; in some localities 

 in these countries it is very abundant in the cold season. It seems to resort 

 to Manado tua Island in some numbers; in April 1893 our hunters obtained 



