MOTACILLA VIRIDIS. 
(GREY-HEADED WAGTAIL.) 
The Green Wagtail, Brown, Ilustr. Zool. p. 86, pl. xxxiii. fig. 2, “Ceylon” (1776). 
Motacilla viridis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. p. 962, “Ceylon” (1788, ex Brown). 
Motacilla cinereocapilla, Savi, Nuovo Giorn. delle Lett. p. 190; Orn. Tose. iii. p. 216, “Italy” 
(1831). 
Budytes cinereocapilla, Bp. Comp. List, p. 19, “S. Europe” (1838). 
Motacilla flava, var. borealis, Sundevall, K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1840, p. 53, “* Lapland.” 
Motacilla flava cinereocapilla, Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. xxxviii, “ Italy” (1844). 
Budytes nigricapilla, Bp. Consp. Gen. Av. i. p. 249, ‘ Dalmatia, Ital., Scandinayv., Lapl.” (1850, 
partim ). 
Budytes atricapillus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 141, “‘ Lapland and Dalmatia” (1855). 
Bergeronnette a téte cendrée, French; grauképfige gelbe Schafstelze, German; Cutrettola 
capo-cenerino, Italian; Graahovedet Vipstjert, Danish. 
Figure notabiles. 
Kjerb. Orn. Dan. taf. xix.; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 17. fig. 16; Roux, Orn. Prov. pl. 196; 
Gould, B. of G. B. 11. pl. 5; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pl. ix. fig. 6; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. 
taf. 373. 
3 ad. Motacille flave similis, sed strid superciliari nulla, pileo et nuchd saturaté schistaceis, capitis lateribus 
nigris. 
2 ad. mari similis sed sordidior et pallidior. 
Adult Male (Mezen, N. Russia, 17th June). Resembles WM. flava, but lacks the white streak above the eye, 
the head being of a darker shade of grey, and the lores, space immediately under the eye, and auriculars 
being black. 
Female. UDiffers from the male in being duller in colour, and paler both in the coloration of the upper and 
underparts. 
Obs. The present species is the most closely allied to M. flava. Examples from the north of Europe, shot 
during the breeding-season, always have the heads very dark blackish slate-blue, but not black as in 
M. melanocephala; but I have examined many examples from Southern Europe which differ from 
M. flava only in lacking the white stripes over the eyes and the white markings which are sometimes 
seen on the sides of the head of MW. flava, the sides of the head being much darker than the crown. 
The extent of white on the throat varies considerably ; for in most of the examples from Italy the entire 
chin and upper throat are white, whereas in those from Northern Scandinavia and Russia there is only 
the faintest sign of white on the chin. 
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