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INSECTIVOR.^. 
Familij MO TA CILLIDJE. 
Genus Motacilla. f Latham.) 
SOMBRE WAGTAIL. 
Motacilla lugubris. 
Motacilla luguhris, 
(( 
“ leucoptera, 
“ lugens, 
a it 
“ alba, var. lugens, 
Schicarze Bachsielze, 
Pallas; Fauna Possica. 
Siebald; Fauna Japan., 
Tab. XXV. 
Kittlitz; Taf. 21, f. i. 
Bonaparte; Compar. list, 1838. 
Gould; B. of E., pi. 142. 
Temminck; Orn. Man., 1836, 
(but not of 1820.) 
Vigors. 
Illiger. 
Bonaparte; Conspectus, 
p. 250, 1850. 
Midden DORFF; Tbeil. ii., 
p. 166. 
Meyer; Orn. Tasch. 
Specific Characters. — Head, nape, beak, scapularies, tertials, 
upper tail coverts, and upper tail feathers sooty black in winter 
plumage. Bump ash grey; basal half of primaries, except first, 
and the secondaries pnre white at all seasons. 
Length of male sent me by Mr. Tristram, seven inches and two 
fifths; of female six inches and seven tenths. From carpal joint 
to tip three inches and a half; tail three inches and three fifths; 
beak from gape seven tenths of an inch. Breadth of lower man- 
dible at gape one fifth of an inch; tarsus one inch. 
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