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ORD. III. GEN. X. WAGTAIL. 



SPE. II. GREY WAGTAIL. 



PL 96. 



Motacilla Boarula. Lin, Mant. 1771. p. 527. 

 La Bergeronette Jaune. Brlf. Orn. III. p. 471. 



The bill is long, (lender, and of a dark olive colour : head, neck, back, and 

 fhoulders, grey : rump yellow green : throat white : bread and underparts yel- 

 low : eye brown: wing coverts dull brown : quills black, with the outer webs 

 paler : tail very long, the exteriour feathers white, the next white on the infide 

 and tip, the middle feathers black : legs long and of a pale flefti colour. 



This fpecies breeds in the northern parts of this kingdom, and ihifts its quar- 

 ters according to the feafon. In the winter it frequents the fouthern parts, and 

 goes northward in April. It feeds on infefts only, and is to be met with on 

 the fides of ftreams, near which it makes its neft in a tuft of grafs, and lays fix 

 or eight eggs; for the figure of which fee PI. XXII. Fig. 3. 



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