YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



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INSECTIVORJE. 



Family MOTACILLIDJE. 



Genus Motacilla. ( Latham. ) 



YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla citreola. 



Motacilla citreola, 



Hndytes citreola, 

 Bergeronette citrine, 

 Citronengelbe Schafstelze, 

 Yelloiv-headed Wagtail, 



Pallas; Voy., vol. iii., p. 696, 1776. 

 Gmelin; Syst., i., p. 962, 1788. 

 Latham; Ind., 1790. 

 Temminck; Man., p. 259, 1820. 

 Keyserltng and Blasius; Die Wirbelt, 



1840. 

 Schinz; Europ. Faun., 1840. 



SCHLEGEL, 1844. DEGLAND, 1 849. 



Middendorff; Sibirische Reise, ii., p. 163. 

 Bonaparte, 1838. 

 Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Pennant; Arct. Zoology. 



Specific Characters. — Beak and scapularies bluish grey; head, neck, throat, 

 and all inferior parts of the body, citron yellow; the lateral tail feathers 

 pure white. In the female top of the head and cheeks ashy grey. Length 

 six and a half to seven inches. 



The Yellow-headed Wagtail is an inhabitant of Eastern Russia, 

 Siberia, and Bokhara. It is rarely found more south, though Calvi 

 has introduced it among the birds of Liguria, and Temminck has 

 given the Crimea, Hungary, and the Archipelago, as probable localities. 

 It is therefore not much known to naturalists, and we must accompany 

 Pennant, Pallas, or Middendorff, into the far cold arctic regions, to 

 gain a glimpse of its whereabouts. 



