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on the bread: are two black curved bands, joining at their ends, 

 and are alfo united together in the middle by a line of the fame : 

 the lefler wing coverts are like the back ; the others yellow, 

 and the fecond quills part brown part yellow ; the prime quills 

 dirty brown, with yellow edges : the two middle tail feathers 

 greenifh grey ; the others blackifh brown ; the two outer ones 

 whice, as are the thighs and vent : the legs pale rufous. 



6. Motacilla flava, Lin. Syft. i. p. 331. N° 12. — Faun. Suec. 253. — Scop. ann. i. 



*- YELLOW W. N° 226.— Brun. N° 273, zy^.—Muller, N° 273.— -ATraw. el. p. 374. 2. 



— Frifch. pi. 23. — Georgi Rei/e, p. 174. 

 La Bergeronette de Printemps, Brif. orn. iii. p. 468. N" 40. — Buf. oif. v. 



265. pi. 14. f. I.— PI. eal. 674. N° 2. 

 Yellow Water Wagtail, Rati Syn. 75. A. 2. — Will. orn. p. 238. pi. 68. 

 —Ed<ui. pi. 158. (the female.)— Br. Zool. i. N° 143. — Ara. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. T ENGTH fix inches and a half. Bill black : irides hazel : 

 the head, and upper parts of the body, olive green ; rump 

 paleft : under parts, from the breaft, bright yellow : on the throat 

 a few black fpots : over the eye a ftreak of yellow j through the 

 eye a fecond of dufky ; and beneath the eye a third of the fame 

 colour : lefier wing coverts as the back; the others dufky, edged 

 •with pale yellow : quills dufky : the tail black, except two of 

 the outer feathers, which are half black half white, divided ob- 

 liquely : legs black : the hind claw very long. 

 Female. The female is much lefs bright in colour: the ftreak over the 



eye whitifh, and wants the black markings on the throat. 

 Place and This is common in moift meadows and corn-fields in England 



in the fummer-time, migrating, or at leaft fhifting its quarters, 



in 



