WHITE-WINGED TIED WAGTAIL. 



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INSECTTVORJE. 

 Family MOTICILLID^. 



Genus Motacilla. (Latham. J 



Generic Characters. — Beak slender, straight, awl-shaped, cylindrical, and 

 angulated between the nostrils; the edge of the inferior mandible compressed 

 inwards. Nostrils basal, lateral-ovoid, partly closed by a naked membrane. 

 Tarsi as long again as the middle toe; three toes in front and one behind, 

 the outer toe of the three joined to the middle toe at its base; the claw 

 of the hinder toe longer than those in front, which are very small. Tail 

 very long, and nearly even at the end, having twelve feathers. Wings of 

 moderate size, first quill the longest, second and third equal, and nearly 

 as long as the first. The tertials very long. 



WHITE-WINGED PIED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla vidua. 



Motacilla vidua, 



lugubris, 



leucoptera, 

 Scliwarze Bachstelze, 

 Sombre Wagtail, 



Sundevall; Ofv. Kongl. Vet. Akad. Forh., 



1850, p. 153. 

 Pallas; Fauna Rossica. 

 Siebald; Fauna Japan., Tab. xxv. 

 Kittlitz; Taf. 21, f. i. 

 Bonaparte; Compar. List, 1838. 

 Gould; B. of E., pi. 142. 

 Temminck; Orn. Man., 1836, (but not of 



1820.) 

 Bree ; first Edition. 

 Vigors. 



Meyer; Orn. Tasch. 

 Bree; first Edition. 



Specific Characters. — Upper parts sooty black, the basal half of the feathers 

 being ash grey, which when they are undisturbed gives a greyish tinge to 

 the plumage. Basal half of primaries, except first, and the secondaries pure 

 white at all seasons. 



