80 MOTACILLID^. 



Motacilla capensis, Linn. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 20.) 



Motacilla capensis, Thien. Fortpjlanz. ges. Vog. tab. xxv. fig. 3 (1845-54) ; 

 Gumey, Ibis, 1860, p. 208 ; Ayres, Ibis, 1869, p. 292 ; Sharpe, ed. 

 Zmjard, Birds 8. Africa, p. 647 (1875-84) ; Butler, Feildm Sr Meid, 

 Zool. 1882, p. 337 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. p. 493 (1885) ; 

 Nehrk. Mkt. Eiersamml. p. 91 (1899) ; Haagner, Ibis, 1901, p. 16; 

 Sharpe, Handrl. t. p. 140 (1906). 



Eggs of the Cape Wagtail are of a pointed oval form and 

 moderately glossy. They are cream-oolour or greyish-white, 

 freckled, especially at the broad end, with pale grey or light 

 brown. On some eggs the markings are so faint that they are 

 hardly noticeable. Specimens measure from -76 to '85 in length, 

 and from -58 to "61 in breadth. 



4. South Africa. E. L. Layard, Esq. [P.J. - 



6. Transvaal, October {T. Ayres: Crowley Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 



2. 14-Streams, Vaal River, November. E. B. Woosnam, Esq. [C.]. 



2. Natal. T. Ayres, Esq. [0.]. 



1. Ladysmith, 18th November. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 



3. Blue Krantz, Natal, Nov. Capt. Savile G. Reid [P.]. 

 3. Pondoland. Crowley Bequest. 



3. Cape Colony. Gould Coll. 



2. Cape Colony (T. Atmore: Tris- Crowley Bequest. 



tram Coll.). 

 1. Cape Colony (E. L. Layard: Crowley Bequest. 



TT^RfVOiTyii I oil I 



3. Deelfontein, 4th Nov. (K Sei- Col. Sloggett [P.]. 



mund). 

 3. Deelfontein, 8th Dec. (K S.). Col. Sloggett [P.], 



3. Kuruman, 17th Dec. R. B. Woosnam & R. E. Dent, 



Esqrs. [C], 



Motacilla clara, Sharpe. 

 (Plate IV. fig. 13.) 



Motacilla longicauda, Biipp. (nee Gmel.), Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 



p. 495 (1885) ; Shelley, Birds Afr. ii. p. 274 (1900) ; Stark, Birds 



S. Afr. i. p. 267 (1900). 

 Motacilla clara, Sharpe, Handrl. v. p. 140 (1906). 



Two eggs of the Long-tailed Pied Wagtail are of a pointed oval 

 form and slightly glossed. The ground-colour is white, densely 

 freckled with greyish-brown and lavender-grey ; one example has a 

 few black hair-lines at the larger end. They measure respectively 

 •79 by -6 and -81 by -59. 



2. East Africa. Crowley Bequest. 



