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MOTACILLA MELANOPE 
(GREY WAGTAIL.) 
The Grey Water-Wagtail, Edw. Gleanings, v. p. 105, pl. 259, “ England” (1758). 
Ficedula motacilla flava, Briss. Orn. iii. p. 471, pl. xxiii. fig. 5 (1760). 
Motacilla flava, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 153 (1769, nec Linn.). 
Motacilla melanope, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 696, ‘“ Dauria” (1776). 
La Bergeronnette jaune, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vy. p. 268 (1778). 
Tschutschi Wagtail, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 397, ‘‘ Tschutschi coast” (1785). 
Motacilla tschutschensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 962, ‘‘Tschutschi coast” (1788). 
Motacilla boarula, Gm. tom. cit. p. 997 (1788, nec Scop.). 
Motacilia sulphurea, Bechst. Gemeinn. Naturg. V6g. Deutschl. ii. p. 459, “Europe and 
Asia” (1807). 
Pallenura (M. metanope), Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-As. i. p. 500 (1811). 
Motacilla cinerea, Leach, Syst. Cat. M. & B. Brit. Mus. p. 22, “ England” (1816). 
Motacilla bistrigata, Raffles, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 312, “ Sumatra” (1821). 
Calobates, Kaup (Motacilla sulphurea, Bechst.), Natiirl. Syst. p. 33 (1829). 
Motacilla montium, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 346, “* Germany ” (1831). 
Budytes boarula, Eyton, Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 15, “ England” (1836, nec Scop.). 
Motacilla xanthoschistos, Hodgs. in Gray’s Zool. Misc. p. 83, “ Nipal” (1844). 
Pallenura sulphurea (Bechst.), Bp. Cons. Gen. Av. i. p. 250 (1850). 
Pallenura javensis, Bp. tom. cit. p. 250, “Java” (1850). 
Motacilla mentana, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 143, “ Germany” (1855). 
Motacilla rivalis, C. L. Brehm, ut supra, ‘‘ Germany ” (1855). 
Bergerennette jaune, French ; Alveloa amarella, Portuguese ; Ballerina gialla, Italian ; Zakak- 
ta-del, Maltese; graue Bachstelze, Winter-Bachstelze, German; groote gele Kivikstaart, 
Dutch; Gradrla, Swedish; Seraya tresoguska, Russian. 
figure notabiles. 
Edwards, 7. ¢.; D’Aubenton, Pl. Enl. 28. fig. 1; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pl. 80; Fritsch, 
Vog. Eur. taf. 17. figs. 15,14; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 87; Gould, B. of Eur. pl. 147; 
id. B. of G. B. iii. pls. 6, 7; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. pl. 103. 
3 ad. ptil. est. pileo, capitis lateribus et corpore supra saturaté cinereis, dorso vix olivaceo tincto, uropygio 
supracaudalibusque viridi-flavidis: remigibus nigricantibus, secundariis ad basin albis, intimis brunneo 
marginatis: tectricibus alarum majoribus nigricantibus cinereo marginatis, minoribus dorso con- 
coloribus: rectrice extima utrinque alba, duabus sequentibus albis sed in pogonio externo ad basin et 
fere ad apicem nigris, rectricibus reliquis nigricantibus vix flavo-viridi marginatis: mento et gula 
nigris utringue strié alb&é indistincté notatis et strid distinctaé supra eculum duct&: corpore subtis 
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