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ORD. III. GEN. X. WAGTAIL. 



SPE. III. YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



PI. 97 . 



Motacilla flava. Lin. Syfl. I. p. 33 r. 



La Bergeronette de printemps. Brif. Orn. III. p. 468. 



The tail of this fpecies is much Ihorter than of the other two of this genus : 

 the bill is black : eyes dark brown : head, and upper parts of the body, yellow 

 green, paleft on the rump: under part from the throat bright yellow j on the 

 throat are a few dark fpots : over the eye a pale ftreak j through the eye from 

 the bill a brownilh ftreak : wings dull brown : tail feathers black, except the 

 exteriour ones, which are partly white : legs dark brown. 



In thefe three fpecies the females differ but very little in colour or fize from 

 the males. 



This is a common bird in the meadows of England in the fummer ftafon, 

 migrating or (hifting its quarters in the autumn. It builds on the ground, on 

 a dry bank or hillock, and fometimes in green corn-fields, and lays four or five 

 eggs; for which fee PI. XXII. Fig. 4. 



