MOTACILLA. 43 



JHslriJ/ution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor, local 

 or rare. It has nested in Kent :ind Sussex, and occasionally 

 in other countie.-) from Devonshire to Durham and in north 

 Wales. In Scotland it is somewhat rare on passage along 

 the east and west coasts and in the Shetlands. 



General Distribution. — The Blue-headed Wagtail breeds 

 from central Scandinavia and Russia to the Pyrenees, 

 northern Italy, and Hungary. It winters in tropical and 

 south Africa. 



Motacilla flava beema. Sykes' Wagtail. 



Budytes beema Sykes, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1832, p. 90 : 

 Deccan, India. 



Motacilla beema (Si/Iees) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, 

 p. 521 ; ButterficU, Zoolorjist, 1902, p. 232. 



Beema, more correctly Bhima, a riyer in the Deccan, where doubtless the 

 bird was first met with by Col. Sykes. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. Twice 

 recorded: Sussex, April 1898; Pair Isle, Shetlands, May 1910. 



General Distribution. — Sykes' Wagtail breeds in western 

 Siberia. It occurs on migration through Turkestan to India, 

 where it winters. Occasional in Europe. 



Motacilla flava cinereicapilla. 



Ashy-headed Wagtail. 



Motacilla Cinereocapilla Savi, Nuovo Giornale del 

 Letterati, xxii. 1831, p. 190 : Tuscany. 



Motacilla cinereicapilla Savi ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, 

 p. 526 ; Ticehurst, British Birds, i. 1907, p. 137. 

 Cinereica2)tMa= grey-haired, from cinereus and capillus. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. It has 

 occurred in Cornwall and in Norfolk. 



General Distribution. — The Ashy-headed Wagtail breeds in 

 Spain, southern France, Switzerland, Italy, Dalmatia, some 

 of the Balkan States, and probably in north-west Africa. 

 It winters in northern tropical Africa. It has occurred in 

 Belgium. 



