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somewhat with greenish later in the year ; the chin is white, and the 

 throat a yellowish or buffy white ; breast and under parts pale yellow ; 

 back greyish brown ; bill and legs dark brown ; irides dusky brown. 



Length. — 6 to 6'5 inches, wing 3"25, tail nearly 3, bill at front 

 0-6. 



Hab. — Central Europe, Asia, nearly throughout India to the Hima- 

 layas, also in Japan and Africa. A winter visitant in India ; Sind. 



Budytes citreola, Pall. ; Reise. iii. 5696 ; Gould. B. Eur. pi. 144 ; 

 Naum. vogt. t. 377, 2, 3, 4 ; Murray, Hdhh, Zool., 8fc., Sind, p. 168 ; 

 Hume, Str. F. vii. 401. Motacilla citrinella, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso. As. i. 

 p. 502. Budytes aureicapilla, Less. — The Geey-backed Yellow Wagtail, 



Adult. — Forehead, crown of head, sides of the face, ear-coverts, chin, 

 throat, breast, and entire under surface bright yellow, paler on the vent, 

 and nearly white on the under tail-coverts ; nape and upper back black ; 

 lower back and scapulars dark grey ; rump and upper tail-coverts pale 

 or dark brown or yellowish green, the -feathers edged with greenish ; 

 primaries and secondaries dusky : tertiaries dark brown; the primaries 

 and secondaries faintly edged and tipped with white, and the tertiaries 

 broadly so, all basally white on their inner webs; lesser wing-coverts like 

 the back and tipped brown ; median and greater coverts brown, edged 

 with white and forming two conspicuous white or yellowish white bands ; 

 the second band oblique in the closed wing, being formed by the white 

 of the greater coverts, and that of the innermost tertiaries, the longest of 

 which is nearly equal in length with the 4th primary; under wing- 

 coverts white; tail black; the feathers with a faint tinge of whitish on 

 their outer webs ; tlie two outermost tail feathers on each side white, 

 with a brown margin on their inner webs, to about half an inch from 

 the tip; the next black, with the edge of the outer web and tip white; 

 bill and legs pale brown ; irides brown. 



Length. — 7'1 inches, wing 318, tail 2-75, bill at front 0-4. 



Hab. — E. Europe, Africa; Sind, Punjab, N. W. Provinces, Oudb, 

 Bengal ; Kutch, Kattiawar, Rajputana, Deccan ; Beloochistan, Persia, 

 Afghanistan, and E. Turkistan. 



Budytes CalcaratUS, Sodgs. Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 225 ; Hume, 

 Str. F. vii. 401; Murray, HdbJc., Zool., Sfc, Sivd, p. 168. Budytes 

 citreoloides, Hodgs. — The Yellow-headed Wagtail. 



Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — Entire head, chin, throat, breast, 

 and under surface bright yellow ; back, rump and upper tail-coverts 

 dark brown, nearly black ; lesser wing-coverts dark grey ; median and 

 greater wing-coverts dark brown, margined and tipped with white ; the 

 tertiaries broadly margined with white; primaries and secondaries dark 

 brown on their outer webs, dusky on their inner, and with whitish margins ; 

 tail dark brown or black, the feathers very narrowly edged with, 

 greenish ; the four outermost white, except a dusky brown margin on the 

 inner web for three-fourths their length. In winter the adult is light ashy 

 grey above, the nape and sides of the breast darker ; head and under sur- 

 face yellow, olivaceous on the flanks ; primaries dusky, edged with greyish 

 white on their outer webs ; secondaries dusky; tertiaries darker, broadly 



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