49 

 MOTACILLA BOARULA. 



Lin. Mentis, 527. 



THE GRAY WAGTAIL. 



PLATE XLIX. 





X he bill and eyes, black ; cheeks, ash-colour ; over 

 the eye, a white line, which takes its rise at the base 

 of the upper mandible : another white line arises at 

 the base of the lower, is extended below the cheeks, 

 and curved towards the back part of the neck, divid- 

 ing the gray colour of the cheeks from the black of 

 the throat. The top of the head and back, are a 

 grayish ash colour ; the rump, a dull greenish yellow. 

 The tail is long and a little forked ; the two outmost 

 feathers on each side, white ; the rest black with green 

 edges : the first and second order of quills are black 

 with gray edges ; the last order have broad margins of 

 a pale gray, and are very long, the third from the 

 body, reaching to the tip of the first quills, as in the 

 Larks. The throat in the male is black; in the female, 

 a dusky yellow. 



The breast, belly, and covert feathers under the tail, 

 in both sexes are a bright yellow. 



The little Dragon-fly* figured on the plate, is on 

 the wing in May. Its haunts are near ponds and 

 rivers ; it is frequent amongst the bushes beside the 

 river Calder, near Halifax, and is, I think, the prettiest 

 species of Dragon-fly we have in England. 



Libellula Minus Linnaei. 



