322 WAGTAIL. 



and female much alike : birds of the first year are deep ash-coloured 

 brown, instead of black ; in the winter the fore part of the neck is 

 pure white, and on the breast is a crescent of black, the points 

 tending* upwards. 



Inhabits the South of Europe, and the warmer parts of France, 

 but neither met with in Switzerland nor Germany ; the manners much 

 the same as in others of the tribe. M. Temminck observes, that the 

 same bird has been killed in Egypt, the Crimea, and in Hungary. 



8- SOUTHERN WAGTAIL.— Pl. civ.* 



LENGTH nearly seven inches. Bill black, irides hazel ; head, 

 neck, and back, for the most part, slaty black on each side of the 

 forehead ; from the nostrils a patch of white, communicating with the 

 chin, which is also white; behind the eye another white patch ; under 

 parts from the breast yellowish white ; wing coverts white, marked 

 with longish dusky spots; quills brown; tail long, cuneiform, the 

 two middle feathers two inches and a half long, the exterior, one inch 

 and a half; colour dusky, with the ends more or less pale, or whitish, 

 the two outer wholly white; legs long, blue black. 



Inhabits New-Holland, and has the air and manners of our 

 Common Wagtail. 



9.— GREY-BACKED WAGTAIL. 



LENGTH seven inches. Bill five-eighths of an inch long, and 

 black, with a very trifling notch at the tip ; top of the head to the 

 eyes, neck behind, and beginning of the back, greenish black, and 

 somewhat glossy; the rest of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 

 pale, hoary, bluish grey ; wings chiefly black, but the inner bend is 

 white, passing in a broad streak to the middle of the wing ; the 



