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throated Pipits with it. But as-spring draws on and one 
goes further south, both these birds become scarcer: indeed 
I do not remember seeing any White Wagtails in June. 
The last great flock I saw was on the 12th of March,—a 
countless stream migrating northwards. The next day 
there was not one. Wilkinson says that Abou fasada means 
“Father of corruption.” An explanation of this name more 
probable than that which he and Dr. Adams favour, has 
been given to me, viz, that the Wagtail seeks its food 
(small flies) among the droppings of the cattle. 
%101. GREY WAGTAIL, Motacilla sulphurea (Bech). 
I got this the first day we went out. During January 
and the early part of February I saw at least six, all alone. 
T observed one pecking about and flirting its tail in a boat 
in the town of Mansourah, and more than a fortnight after- 
wards, when we were coming back, I saw it again in the 
same place. 
102. Budytes flava (Linn.), M. neglecta, Gould. 
103. Budytes viridis (Gmel.). 
In Egypt, at any rate, these two “species” cannot be 
kept apart ; but as the latest authorities still sunder them, of 
course I cannot do better than follow suit. They are very 
generally distributed, but specimens without the eye stripe 
are commoner than those with. At the end of April I saw 
large flocks of young birds of the year. They are very 
different in colour from the old ones, having on either side 
the throat a marked black band, and no yellow at all. 
They were like Mr. Dresser's figure of the ‘young B. flava 
(loc. cit). 
