44 MOTACILLIDvE. 



Motacilla flava thunbergi. Grey-headed 

 Wagtail. 



Motacilla thunbergi Billherg, Synop. Fauna Scand. i. 2, 



Aves, 1828, p. 50 : Lapland. 

 Motacilla viridis Gmelin ; JB. O. IT. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 31 ; 



Saunders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 128. 

 Motacilla borealis Sundev. ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, 



p. 522. 



Thunbergi, named after C. P. Thimberg (1743-1828), a Swedish naturalist 

 and traveller and a pupil of Linnseus. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Bird of Passage ob- 

 served in small numbers in spring and autumn at Fair Isle, 

 Shetlands. Possibly overlooked elsewhere, but has been 

 recorded from the Orkneys, the Isle o£ May, Fife, York- 

 shire, and both the eastern and southern coasts of England. 



General Distribution. — The Grey-headed Wagtail breeds 

 in the north of Scandinavia, Russia, and Siberia. It winters 

 in north-east Africa, India, Burma, and the Malay Peninsula. 

 It also occurs in north-western Africa and on migration 

 throughout Europe. 



Motacilla feldeggi. Black-headed Wagtail. 



Motacilla feldeggi Michahelles, Isis, 1880, p. 812 : 



Dalmatia. 



Motacilla feldeggi MichaJi. ; Sharps, Gat. Birds B. M. x. 1885, 

 p. 527 ; Butterfield, Bull. B. 0. C. xiii. 1903, p. 69. 



feldeggi, after Eitter Preiherr von Feldegg of Spalatro, who obtained the 

 original specimen. 



Distribution in the Bntish Islands. — A Rare Visitor. Has 

 occurred in Sussex, May 1903 and May 1909 ; Kent, June 

 1908. 



General Distribution. — The Black-headed Wagtail breeds 

 in south-eastern Europe, from Dalmatia to the Caucasus, and 

 in Asia Minor. It winters in Arabia and north-eastern 

 Africa, is fairly common on migration in Italy, and has 

 occurred in Heligoland, Algeria, and Tunisia. 



