MOTACILLA RAIL 
(YELLOW WAGTAIL.) 
The Yellow Water Wagtail, Edw. Gleanings, v. p. 102, pl. 258, “ England ” (1758). 
Motacilla flava, Donovan, Nat. Hist. Brit. B. i. pl. xv. “ England” (1799, nec Linn.). 
’ Budytes flavissima, Blyth, Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. p. 542, “ England” (1834). 
Motacilla flaveola, Temm. Man. d’Orn. iti. p. 183, “ England” (1835, nec Pall.). 
Budytes flava, Eyton, Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 15, “ Great Britain ” (1836, nec Linn.). 
Budytes rayi, Bp. Comp. List, p. 18, ‘ British Islands” (1838). 
Budytes campestris, Keys. & Blas. Wirbelth. Eur. p. xlix. “S. Russia, Persia, G. Britain” 
(1840, nec Pall.). 
Motacilla flava, var. anglica, Sundey. K. Vet. Ak. Handl. 1840, p. 53, “ British Islands.” 
Motacilla flava rayi, Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. xxviii, “ England” (1844). 
Motacilla anglorum, Florent Prévost, fide Degland, Orn. Eur. i. p. 442, “Maine et Loire” 
(1849). 
Budytes neglectus, C. L. Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 142, “England, rare in Germany ” (1855, 
nec Gould). 
Motacilla campestris, Blas. in Naum. Vég. Deutschl. xiii. p. 130, “S. Ural” (1860, nec Pall.). 
Budytes ray, var. flavifrons, Severtzoff, Turk. Jevotnie, p. 67, “ Turkestan” (1873). 
Figure notabiles. 
Edwards, /. ¢.; Donovan, 7. ¢c.; Gould, B. of Eur. pl. 145; id. B. of G. B. iii. pl. i; 
Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 372. 
3 ad. ptil. est. supra viridi-olivaceus, pileo magis flavido et uropygio clariore: lined superciliari a basi rostri 
fere ad nucham, linea infra oculum, et corpore subtus flavissimis: alis et cauda ut in Motacilld flava 
picturatis. 
2 ad. mari similis sed sordidior, corpore subtus pallidé flavo, gula et superciliis albidis flavo lavatis. 
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Adult Male (Pagham, 23rd April). Upper parts olive-green, becoming yellowish green on the crown and 
forehead; rump rather richer in colour than the back; quills dark greyish brown, the primaries 
narrowly and the secondaries broadly margined with buffy white, tinged with sulphur-yellow; larger 
wing-coverts broadly tipped with sulphur-yellow; tail blackish brown, the two outer rectrices on each 
side white, margined on the basal portion of the inner web with blackish brown; entire underparts 
rich yellow; a broad stripe of yellow passes from the base of the bill over the eye nearly to the nape; 
and another streak of the same colour passes under the eye, there being an olive-green line between 
this latter and the bright yellow throat; bill and feet blackish; iris dark brown. Total length about 
6°5 inches, culmen 0°6, wing 3°25, tail 3:0, tarsus 1-0, hind toe with claw 0°68, hind toe 0°38. 
Adult Female (Pagham). Resembles the male, but is much duller in colour, the throat and superciliary 
stripes are yellowish white, and the underparts are much paler yellow. 
