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second quills fringed with white, the greater wholly black ; all the 

 under parts of the bird from chin to vent, also the under wing coverts 

 white ; tail three inches long, in shape rounded, the feathers black, 

 the two middle ones fringed with white, and the two outer tipped 

 with white ; legs black. 



Inhabits Java, and there called Gadagiee. — A specimen in the 

 India House, London, and another in the collection of Lord Stanley. 



10.— CINEREOUS WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla cinerea, Ind. Orn. ii. 502. Gm. Lin. 961. Bris. iii. 465. t: 25. 1. Id. Svo. i. 



437. Gerin. iv. t. 384. f. 2. Tern. Man. d'Orn. p. 145. Id. Ed. ii. 256. 

 Bergeronette grise, Buf.v. 261. PI. enl. 674. 1. Hist. Prov.'i. 457. 

 Cinereous Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 397. Shmv's Zool. x. 550. 



LENGTH nearly seven inches. Bill and legs brown ; upper part 

 of the head, neck, and body, cinereous grey ; the under white ; across 

 the breast a brownish band ; wing coverts and second quills dusky, 

 with whitish edges ; greater quills blackish brown ; tail dusky black, 

 but the outer feather is white, except the base half of the inner web; 

 the second the same, but the webs are white only for one-third, and 

 the inner web black at the end. 



The female wants the band on the breast. This is not unconir- 

 mon on the Continent of Europe, but not seen in this kingdom ; 

 appears in summer, in some numbers in the pastures, among cattle, 

 retiring to the streams, when flies, and other insects in the fields, 

 become scarce. It differs from ours in making the nest, as it builds 

 on a low willow, or other bush, near the ground, and has two broods 

 in a year. — M. Temminck supposes this to be a young bird of the 

 White Wagtail. 



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