332 WAGTAIL. 



15.— VARIEGATED WAGTAIL. 



La Lavandiere variee, Levail. Afr. iv. 86. pi. 179. 



SIZE of the last. Bill yellowish ; irides brown ; crown of the 

 head and hind part of the neck, bright olive-brown ; upper parts of 

 the plumage much the same; wings dusky, with a whitish spot on 

 the middle of the coverts, the greater ones bordered with white, and 

 a few yellowish markings; the quills have also a mixture of white 

 and yellowish ; all the under parts of the body brown, and dusky 

 white; across the breast a black brown collar; the four middle tail 

 feathers black, the others more white as they proceed outward, the 

 exterior one being wholly white, except at the base ; the legs rufous. 



The female differs from the male in being destitute of a collar. 



Inhabits the interior of the Cape of Good Hope, chiefly about 

 the Caffre Country. Manners and incubation unknown. It is 

 probably allied to the last. 



16.— AFRICAN WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla Afra, Ind.Orn.W. 505. Gml. Lin.\. 962. 

 La petite Bergercmette du Cap. de B. Esp. Bvf. v. 274. 

 African Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 402. Shaw's Zool. x. 561. 



THIS is smaller than the Cape Wagtail. Bill black, broad at 

 the base, slender at the point, and a little curved ; plumage on the 

 upper parts yellowish brown ; beneath the body yellow, except 

 the under tail coverts, which are white; over the eye a streak of 

 white; the tail is half the length of the bird, and black; legs black, 

 the hind claw largest. 



Inhabits the Cape of Good Hope. 



