AVES. 381 



highlands around Lake Ashangi, but only very few re- 

 mained. A month earlier they had been numerous. 



i66. M. {CcHohates) sulphurea (Bechst.). 



MotaciUa sulphurea, Heugl. Orn. N. 0. Afr. p. 318. 



Not common. I only killed one specimen, which I 

 obtained in the Lebka valley in August. 



167. Budytes melanocephala (Licht.), or £. flava, L. var. 

 Tiidanocephala. 



Motacilla flava inelanocephala, HeugL Om. N. 0. Afr. p. 321. 

 Motacilla melanocephala, licht. Verz. der DoubL p. 36. — Riipp. 

 Atlas, t. xxxiii b. ; et Syst. Uebers. No. 178. 



Common everywhere during the winter, and I suspect 

 many remain and breed on the highlands of Abyssinia, 

 for birds of this species were stUl abundant around Lake 

 Ashangi at the. beginning of May, although they had 

 then assumed the nuptial plumage more than a month. 



The Yellow Wagtails pass gradually into each other, 

 and are considered by many of the best ornithologists, as 

 Tristram and Finsch, as merely varieties of one species, 

 B. flava, L. 



Specimens of B. mekmocephala killed in December 

 and January are perfectly indistinguishable from the 

 Indian specimens generally assigned by Jerdon and 

 others to B. viridis, Gm. 



168. B. cinereocapilla, Savi. 



? B. flava, L. Evipp. Syst. Uebers. Ko. 176. 



Motacilla flava cinereoscapilla, Heugl. N. O. Afr. p. 321. 



A single specimen in breeding plumage was shot at 

 Lake Ashangi at the beginning of AprU. It is interme- 



