Class II. WHITE WAGTAIL. 



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GENUS XXVI. WAGTAIL. 



Bill slender, with a small tooth near the end 



of the upper mandible. 

 Tongue lacerated. 

 Tail long. 



Motacilla alba. M. pectore ni- 

 gra, rectricibus duabus latera- 

 libus dimidiato oblique albis. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 501. id. Syn. 

 iv. 395. id. Sup. i. 178. 



Belon. av. 34Q. 



Motacilla alba. Gesnerav.6l8. 



Aldr. av. ii. 323. 



Ballarina, Cutrettola. Olina, 

 43. 



Wil. orn. 237. 



Raii Syn. av. 75. 



La Lavandiere. Brisson av. iii. 

 461. Hist. cTois. vi. 251. PL 

 Enl. 652./. 1. 2. 



Monachina. Zinan. 51. 

 Pliska, Pastaritra. Scopoli, No. 



224. 

 M. alba. Gm. Lin. 960. 

 Aria, Sadesarla. Faun. Suez. 



sp. 252. 

 Danis Vip-Stiert, Havre-Sseer. 



Norvegis Erie, Lin-Erie. 



Brunnick, 271- 

 Weiss und schwartze Bach- 



steltze. Frisch, i. 23. 

 Graue Bachstelze. Kram. 374. 

 Br. Zool. 104. Arct. Zool. ii. 



1. White. 



jLHIS bird frequents the sides of ponds, and 

 small streams ; and feeds on insects and worms, 

 as do all the rest of this genus. Mr. Willughby 

 justly observes, that this species shifts its quar- 

 ters in the winter, moving from the north to the 

 south of England, during that season. In spring 



