WAGTAIL. 327 



blue, beneath pale yellow; quills and tail black, the last remarkably 

 long; the bastard wing small, and of a reddish white. 



Inhabits New South Wales. 



I likewise observe, in Gen. Hardwicke's collection of drawings, 

 one, which appears as a further Variety : this has a pale streak over 

 the eye, through it a dusky one ; sides beneath it paler ; the throat 

 white, bounded with a kind of dusky dotted band, arising, no doubt, 

 from the first breaking forth of the black throat feathers, and the bird 

 of course not complete, as in the breeding season : said to be a male. 



Found at Cawnpore, in India, in May. 



12.— YELLOW WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla flava, Ind. Orn. ii. 504. Lin. i. 331. Faun. suec. No. 253. Gm. Lin. i. 



963. Brun. No. 273. 274. Midler, No. 273. Kramer, 374. 2. Frisch, t. 23. 



Georgi, 174. Faun. arag. 88. Borowsk. iii. 189. Sepp, Vog. t. 103. Raii, 75. 



A. 2. Will. 172. t. 68. Tern. Man. a" Orn. p. 147. Id. Ed. ii. 260. Lin. Trans. 



xiii. 156. 

 Motacilla verna, Bris. iii. 468. Id. 8vo. i. 438. Gerin. iv. 385. 2. 382. 2 ? 

 Sylvia flava, Klein, 78. Id. Stem. 16. 7. f. 7. a— c. Id. Ov. 26. t. 10. f. IS. 

 Motacilla boarula, Scop. i. 226. 



Bergeronette de Printems, Buf. iv. 265. pi. 14. f. 1. PI. enl. 674. 2. Hist. Prov. i. 497. 

 Gelbe Weyer-Backstelze, Gunth. Nest. u. Ey. t. 72. 



Yellow Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 400. Id. Sup. 179. Br. Zoo/, i. No. 143. Id.fol. 105. 

 Id. Ed. 1812. i. p. 491, plj 62. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 396. F. Will. Engl. 238. pi. 6S. 



Collins, Birds, pi. 2. f. 3. & pi. 4. f. 3. Edic. pi. 258. Bewick, Birds, pi. iii 



p. 191. Shaiu's Zool. x. 560. Lewin, Birds, iii. pi. 97. Wa/cot, Birds, ii. pi. 



228. Donovan, Birds, i. pi. 15. Pult. Dors. p. 8. Orn. Diet. 



THIS is about six inches and a half long, and weighs five 

 drachms. Bill and legs black ; irides hazel ; the head and upper 

 parts of the body are olive-green, on the throat a few black spots ; 

 over the eye a yellow streak ; through it a second of dusk} 7 ; and 

 beneath a third of the latter colour ; lesser wing coverts like the 

 back, the others dusky, edged with pale yellow; under parts from 

 the breast bright yellow; quills dusky; tail black, except two of 



