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INSECTIVOR^. 



Family MOTACILLID^. 



Genus Motacilla. (Latham.) 



SOMBRE WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla luguhris. 



Mutarilla luguhris, Pallas ; Fauna Eossica. 



" " Siebald; Fauna Japan., 



Tab. XXV. 

 KiTTLITZ; Taf. 21, f. i. 

 " " Bonapaetk; Compar. list, 1838. 



Gould; B. of E., pi. 142. 

 Temminck; Orn. Man., 1836, 

 (but not of 1820.) 

 " leucoptera. Vigors. 



" lugens, Illiger. 



" " Bonaparte; Conspectus, 



p. 250, 1850. 

 " alha, var. lugens, Midden doeff; Theil. ii., 



p. 166. 

 ScJiicarze 13achstelze, Meter ; Orn. Tasck. 



Specific Characters. — Head, nape, beak, scapularies, tertials, 

 upper tail coverts, and upper tail feathers sooty black in winter 

 plumage. Eump asli grey; basal half of primaries, except first, 

 and the secondaries pure 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 aa inch. Breadth of lower man- 

 dible at gape one fifth of an inch; tarsus one inch. 



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