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M. viridis. Like those it is usually found in low grasslands, and frequents places where cattle 
are grazing. lLindermayer states (Vog. Griechenl. p. 81) that it prefers the vicinity of the sea, 
especially places where the salt water mixes with fresh water, and where the tamarisk, flags, and 
salsola flourish. It hunts after insects amongst the reeds, and is, if any thing, more restless than 
the other allied species. It is not unfrequently seen on the branch of a tamarisk, possibly in 
search of insects, and appears to be fond of the neighbourhood of cattle, but is never seen 
amongst sheep. He describes a nest he found as being “carelessly placed against the main stem 
of a tamarisk, and composed of dry flags, lined with hair, flat, and not unlike the nest of Calan- 
drella brachydactyla.” J have received the nest and eggs from Mr. Robson, of Constantinople, 
who, when sending them, wrote as follows: —“I send six eggs and the nest of the Black-headed 
Yellow Wagtail, taken at Khathane on the 17th May, 1863, this being the only nest I could 
find; but when I visited the same place a week later I found several, in which the young were 
already hatched. A colony breed on an island here annually, preferring one particular locality, 
though to all appearance there are many other places equally good, or better, for the purpose 
of nidification.” I still possess four of these eggs, the others having been broken in transit. 
They are about equal in size to those of Wotacilla flava, but are rather darker and browner in 
colour; and three have a blackish line drawn at the larger end, as if with a pen. One, a dwarf 
egg, measures only 76 by 46 inch. 
The specimens figured are an adult male from Bulgaria and a female from N.W. India, both 
being in my collection. 
In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens :— 
E Mus. H. EH. Dresser. 
a,Q. Malta, March 19th, 1867 (C. EL. Wright). 6, 3. Bulgaria (Buckley). c. Egypt (Rogers). d,3,e,¢. 
Etawah, December 15th, 1868 (Brooks). jf. Etawah, February 26th, 1870 (Brooks). g,é. Etawah, 
March 11th, 1870 (Brooks). h,?,t,2,j,2,%,2. Etawah, March 1872 (Brooks). 1, 3. Bundelkund, 
December 28rd (G. F. Marshall). m,&. Almora, May 10th, 1865 (Severtzoff). 
EH Mus. H. B. Tristram. 
a,d. Kokand. 6. Etawah, N.W. India, April 3rd, 1869 (W. E. Brooks). c,d. Cashmere, March 21st, 
1871 (W. E. B.). 
E Mus. Howard Saunders. 
a, é. Constantinople, April 23rd, 1866 (Robson). 6, 3. Missolonghi, May 29th, 1873 (H. Seebohm). c,d,3. 
Futtegurh, March 15th (A. Anderson). 
i Mus. G. F. L. Marshall. 
a, 3,var. Umritzur, March 30th, 1872 (G. F. L. M.). 
