276 YELLOW WATER- WAGTAIL. Clafs II. 



XVII. The YELLOW WATER WAGTAIL. . 



Sufurada. Belon obf. ii. Motacilla verna. Brijfon av. 



Motacilla flava (Gale WafTar- fii. 468. 



fteltz) Ge/ner. av. 618. PL enl. 28. f. 1. 



Aldr. a'v. ii. 323. Motacilla flava. Lin.fyjl. 331. 



Wil. cm. 238. Faun. Suec.fp. 253. 



Raiifyn. a<v. 75. Gulfpink. Brunnkh. 273. 



Ediv. a<u. 258. The Male. Gel be Bachftelee. Kram. 374. 



Codatxemola. Zhian. 51. Br. Zoo/. 105. 

 La Bergeronette du Printemps, 



Defer. ^pHE male is a bird of great beauty : the breaft, 

 •*• belly, thighs, and vent feathers, being of a mod 

 vivid and lovely yellow : the throat is marked with 

 fome large black fpots : above the eye is a bright 

 yellow line ; beneath that, from the bill erofs 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, 

 but the lower row is dusky tipt with yellowilh white: 

 the outmoft feather of the tail white ; the others 

 black, as in the former. The colors of the female are 

 far more obfeure than thofe of the male : it wants 

 alio thofe black fpots on the throat. It makes its 

 neft on the ground, in corn fields: the outfide is 

 compofed of decayed ftems of plants, and fmall 

 fibrous roots ; the infide is lined with hair : it lays 

 five eggs. 



XVIII. The 



