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WAGTAIL, 



Place; Very common in Sihiria, even to the arftic circle; found alio 



in Ruffia, but lefs numerous. Has the manners of other Wag- 

 tails. 



This is perhaps the fame bird mentioned by Lepechin*, which 

 was fix inches and a half long : the two outer tail feathers 

 white, and the outmoft (treated with black : in other things 

 as above defcribed. 



CAPE W. 



Description. 



Motacilla Capenfis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 333. N" 24. 



La Bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Br:/, oin. iii.p. 476. N° 43. 

 pi. 25. f. 3. — Buf. oif. v. p. 273. — PL enl. 28. 2. f 



CIZE of the White Wagtail. Bill dufky : the upper parts 

 brown : the under dirty white, inclining to dufky on the 

 fides : over the eye a whitifh ftreak : acrofs the bread a dufky 

 band : quills brown, edged with grey : the tail is black, except 

 the two outer feathers, the greateft half of which next the end 

 is white : legs dufky. 



AFRICAN W. 

 Description- 



Place. 



La petite Bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. v. p. 274. 



HpHIS is lefs than the former. The bill black, broad at the 

 bafe, flender at the point, and a little curved : the upper 

 parts of the body yellowifh brown : beneath yellow, except the 

 under tail coverts, which are white : over the eye a ftreak of 

 black:, wings, tail, (which is half the length of the bird) and legs,, 

 black : the hind claw largefL 

 From the Cape of Good Hope. 



* See Voy. vol. ii. p. 187. 



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