BLACK-HEADED WAGTAIL. 97 



inner web black at basal half; beak, feet, and iris, brown. 



In the young, according to Degland, the upper parts are olive grey, 

 with the nape ashy and the head blackish, darker in front, and above 

 the eyes and ears; yellowish below, with the throat whitish. 



31. feldeggii is a transitional variety between this and the last noticed. 



This bird is figured from a male specimen sent me by Mr. Brooks. 

 The egg from the Rev. Canon Tristram. 



It is also figured by Bonaparte, in Fauna Italica, pi. 31, fig. 2; 

 Gould, B. of E.; Riippell, Atlas Reise Afric, pi. S3; Dubois, Oiseaux 

 de la Belgique, pt. 48, pi. 94, male and female. 



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