318 WAGTAIL. 



A. — Motacilla albida, Gmel. Lin. i. 961. Jacq. Vog. 23. 17. t. 8. 



This is said to be whitish ; back, wing coverts, and tail, cinereous; 

 bill and legs purplish. This appears to be one in imperfect plumage. 



B.— Motacilla alba, /3. Gm. Lin. 961. 



Bergeronette a Collier de Ln^on, Son. Voy. 61. pi. 29. 



Collared Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 396. 



This seems to differ very little from the first ; but the whole of 

 the neck before is not black, only the lower part and breast ; the 

 back ash-colour; across the wing an oblique white bar, from the 

 bastard wing; quills black, edged with white; the outer wholly 

 black ; tail black, with the two outer feathers white. 



Inhabits the Island of Manilla ; but seems to be the same with 

 our European Species, in one of the changes before observed : such 

 an one, too, we have noticed, which came from Kamtschatka. 



C. — Muscicapa alba, Ind. Orn. ii. 490. Mus. Carls, iii. t. 74. 

 White Flycatcher, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 219. 



This is wholly white, except a slight tinge of brimstone about 

 the head ; tail long as in the Wagtail. From this circumstance, the 

 slenderness of the bill, and general make of the bird, it appears 

 rather to belong to that Genus than to the Flycatcher, in which 

 Dr. Sparrman has placed it. 



Found at Stockholm, and is most probably a Variety of the 

 White Wagtail. 



