TION. 



Class II. YELLOW WAGTAIL. 491 



Motacilla flava. M. pectore Edw. av. 258. 2. Yellow. 



abdomineque flavis, rectrici- Bergeronette de Printems. 



bus duabus lateralibus dimi- Brisson av. ili. 468. Hist. 



diato oblique albis. Lath. d'ois. 265. t. 14. f. 1. P/. 



Ind. orn. 504. id. Syn. iv. Enl. 674. 2. 



400. id. Sup. i. 17Q. Motacilla flava. Gm. Lin. 963. 



La Bergerette. Belon av. 351. Faun. Suec. 253. 



Motacilla flava alia. Aldr. av. Scop. Ann. No. 226. 



ii. 383. Br. Zool. 105. Arct. Zool ii. 



Wil. orn. 238. t. 68. 89. 

 Rail Syn. av. 75. 



X HE male is a bird of great beauty : the breast, Descrip- 

 belly, thighs, and vent-feathers, being of a most 

 vivid and lovely yellow; above the eye is a 

 bright yellow line; beneath that, from the bill 

 across the eye, is another of a dusky hue; and 

 beneath the eye is athii^d of the same color;* the 

 head and whole upper part of the body is of an 

 olive green, which brightens in the coverts of 

 the tail; the quil feathers are dusky; the coverts 

 of the wings olive colored, but the lower rows 

 dusky, tipt with yellowish white; the two out- 

 most feathers of the tail half white; the others 

 black, as in the former. 



The colors of the female are far more ob- 

 .scure than those of the male. 



* The lov\'er part of the cheeks and the throat of young birds 

 are mottled with brown, not unlike what is observed oa 

 Thrushes. Ed. • 



