﻿WAGTAIL, 397 



La Bergeronette de Madraft, Brif. orn. iii. p. 478. N° 44.— i?j£f. oif v. 275. 



Black and White Wagtail, Rati Syn. p. 194. 3. pi. 1. f. 1. PIED W, 



Forked Wagtail, Id. N» 4. pi. 1. f. 6. 



ILL, head, neck, breaft, and upper parts of the body, Description. 

 black : the under parts white : there is alfo an oblique band 

 of white crofs the wing : the middle tail feathers are black, and 

 fome of the outer ones white, but how many of each is not 

 manifeft from either defcription or figure. 



The forked Wagtail is moft likely the female, as it differs Female. 

 merely in having thofe parts afh-colour which are black in the 

 male. 



Thefe inhabit Madras. Place. 



La Bergeronette grife, Brif. orn. iii. p. 465. N° 39. pi. 25. f. \*—Buf. oif. v 3. 



p. 261.- PL ml. 674. 1. CINEREOUS W. 



COME WHAT lefs than the laft : length fix inches three Description. 



quarters. Bill brown : the upper parts of the head, neck, 

 and body, cinereous grey : the under white : acrofs the breaft a 

 brownifh band : wing coverts and fecondaries blackifh, edged 

 wkhwhitifh. : greater quills blackifh brown : the tail dufky black, 

 but the outer feather is white, except the bafe half of the 

 inner web; the fecond the fame, but the webs are white only for 

 one-third of their length, and the inner web black at the end ; 

 legs brown. 



The female wants the band on the bread. Female. 



We have not this in England, though authors talk of it as Place and 

 common on the continent, where it is frequently feen in the annbrs. 



fummer, 



