WAGTAIL. 310 



2 —SPECIOUS WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla speciosa, Lin. Tra?is.x\\\. 155. Horsf. Zool. Res. No. 1. pi. in ditto. 



THIS is a large species, in length ten inches and a half, of which 

 the tail measures six. Bill black, ten lines in length ; colour of the 

 plumage wholly black and white; the feathers of the crown much 

 elongated, forming a crest; these are white, fringed at the sides and 

 tips with black ; the rest of the head, neck, breast, and upper half 

 of the back black, with a gloss of purple on the head and breast; 

 wings black, but the quills incline to brown ; across the wing a band 

 of white, from the tips of three or four of the secondaries being of 

 that colour; lower half of the back, the belly, rump, and vent pure 

 white ; the feathers of the hypochondres elongated, and delicately 

 villous ; tail greatly forked, the shortest feather being little more than 

 one inch long; the outer wholly white ; the others white at the ends, 

 and the tips of all of them tending to a point ; legs yellowish flesh- 

 colour ; hind claw robust, short, curved. 



Inhabits Java, there called Cheuginging, or Kingking ; it is met 

 with, like most others of the Genus, near small rivulets, picking up 

 worms and insects, and having the actions of our common White 

 Species; it is confined almost entirely to the South Coast, being 

 comparatively rare in other parts. 



3— FORKED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla Maderaspatana, Bra. iii. 478. Id. 8vo. i. 441. 

 Forked Wagtail, Rati, 194. 4. pi. i. f. 6. Gen. Si/n. iv. 397. 



IN this the bill, legs, head, neck, breast, and upper parts of the 

 body, are ash-colour ; across the wing an oblique band of white ; 

 the under parts of the body white; tail considerably forked, the two 

 middle feathers black, the others white, and all of them pointed at 

 the ends. 



