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tions, but in the north beyond the limit of forest-growth, the 

 northern birds migrating to South Europe, Africa, and India. 

 Eastwards it occurs as far as Lake Baikal. 



Motacilla lugubris. Pied Wagtail. 



Motacilla lugubris, Temminck, Man. d^Orn. i. p. 253 



(1820). 

 Motacilla yarrelli, Naum. xiii. p. 114; Macg. ii. p. 225; 



Gould, iii. pi. 1 ; Harting, p. 23. 

 Motacilla yarrellii, Hewitson, p. 163 ; Gray, p. 66 ; Yarr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 395 ; id. ed. 3, i. p. 420. 

 Motacilla lugubris, Newton, i. p. 538; Dresser, iii. p. 239. 

 Pied Wagtail, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 362. 



Lugubris = mournful, from lugeo = I mourn. 



A common resident throughout the United Kingdom, and 

 partially migratory. Breeds also in Western France. Mi- 

 grates southwards in winter as far as the western part of 

 North Africa. 



Motacilla melanope. Geet Wagtail. 

 Motacilla Melanope, Pallas, Beise Buss. Beichs, iii. 



p. 696 (1776). 

 Motacilla sulphurea, Naum. iii. p. 824; Gray, p. 67; Newton, 



i. p. 552. 

 Motacilla boarula, Macg. ii. p. 235 ; Hewitson, p. 167; Yatr. 



ed. 2, i. p. 407; id. ed. 3, i. p. 432; Harting, p. 23. 

 Calobates sulphurea, Gould, iii. pis. 6, 7. 

 Motacilla melanope. Dresser, iii. p. 251. 

 Grey Wagtail, Yarr. ed. 1, i. p. 370. 



Melanope = black-faced, from fiekas = black, and *(3^ = the face. 



A local resident in Great Britain and Ireland, becoming much 

 scarcer in the eastern and southern counties of England. 

 Breeds throughout Europe as far north as the British Isles 

 and North Germany, the extreme northern birds wintering 

 in South Europe and North Africa. Eastwards it extends 

 through Persia and South Siberia as far as Japan, wintering 

 in India and the Moluccas. 



