330 WAGTAIL. 



white; the four middle tail feathers are blackish green, the others 

 white, and even at the end ; legs dusky. 



Inhabits India ; called a Variety of Pilkey. — Sir J. Anstruther. 

 The Yellow Wagtail is found in Java, and called there Bessit. 



13.— YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla citreola, Ind. Orn. ii. 504. Gm. Lin. i. 962. Pall. It. Hi. G96. Falck, It. iii. 



t. 29. Tern. Man. Ed. ii. 259. 

 Motacilla Shelto'briuscula, Lepech. It. ii. 1S7. t. 8. f. 1. 

 Yellow-headed Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 401. Arct. Zool. ii. 397. G. Shaw's Zool. x. 557. 



A TRIFLE larger than the Yellow Species, but not unlike it ; 

 the head, neck, and all beneath, yellow; on the nape a blackish 

 crescent; the back of a bluish ash-colour; wings and tail as in the 

 Yellow Wagtail. This is very common in Siberia, even to the Arctic 

 Circle ; found also in Russia, but less numerous : has the manners 

 of other Wagtails. It is probably the same bird mentioned by Le- 

 pechin, which was six inches and a half long; the two outer feathers 

 white, streaked with black, in other things like the above mentioned. 



A.— Size of the other. Bill and legs black ; head, neck, and 

 under parts pale yellow, marked on the nape with dusky ; across 

 the beginning of the back a transverse band of black, from thence 

 the back is cinereous grey ; the under parts pale yellow ; four or 

 more of the middle tail feathers black, the others white. 



Inhabits India, and called Pilkey. — From the drawings of Sir J. 

 Anstruther. 



Among the drawings of General Hardwicke, are both sexes : — 

 In the male the four middle tail feathers are black, the rest white, all 



