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143. YEL- 
Low WacG- 
TAIL, 
DESCRIP. 
YELLOW WAGTAIL. Crass Il 
black crefcent: the breaft and belly are white: the 
quil-feathers are dufky: the coverts black tipt 
and edged with white. The tail is very long, and 
always in motion. The exterior feather on each 
fide is white: the lower part of the inner web ex- 
cepted, which is dufky; the others black: the 
bill, infide of the mouth, and the legs, are black. 
The back claw very long. 
Sufurada. Below obf. IU. Briffon av. VW. 468. Pl. 
Motacilla flava (Gale Waffar- ent. (28.4. 1: 
fteltz). Gefner av. 618. Motacilla flava. Lin. fpf. 331- 
Aldr, av. Il. 323. Gelb - briftige Bachfteltze. 
Wil. orn. 238. Frifch, I. 23. 
Raii fyn. av. 75. Faun. Suec. fp. 253. 
Edw. av. 258. The Male. Gulfpink. Brunnich. 273. 
Codatremola. Zizan. 51. Gelbe Bachftelze. Kram. 374. 
La Bergeronette du  Prin- Scopolt, No. 225. 
temps, Motacilla verna. Br. Zool. 105. 
HE male isa bird of great beauty; the breaft, 
belly, thighs, and vent-feathers, being of a 
moft vivid and lovely yellow : the throat is marked 
with fome large black fpots: above the eye isa 
bright yellow line: beneath that, from the bill crofs 
the eye is another of a dusky hue; and beneath 
the eye is a third of the fame color: the head and 
whole upper part of the body is of an olive green, 
which brightens in the coverts of the tail; the quil- 
feathers are dusky > the coverts of the wings olive 
colored, 
