334 WAGTAIL. 



Inhabits India. Comes near Calcutta in cold seasons, and goes 

 away some time after the hot season has commenced, and during 

 rains; retires to the hills to breed. — Dr. Buchanan. 



20— INDIAN WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla Indica, Ind. Orn. ii. 503. Gm. Lin. i. 962. 

 Bergeronette grise des Indes, Son. Voy. Ind. ii. 207. 

 Indian Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 399. Shaw's Zool. x. 563. 



BILL pale rufous ; irides yellow, head, neck behind, back, and 

 rump, dirty greenish grey ; throat, breast, and belly, very pale 

 yellow ; thighs and vent white ; on the breast two curved bands of 

 black, joining at their ends, and united in the middle by a line of 

 the same ; lesser wing coverts like the back, the others yellow ; the 

 second quills part brown, part yellow; prime quills dirty brown, 

 with yellow edges ; the two middle tail feathers greenish grey, the 

 two outer white ; the others blackish brown ; legs pale rufous. 



Inhabits India. 



21.— BLACK-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



THIS is much the same in size and shape as the Yellow 

 Wagtail, but some are smaller ; length five inches and a half. Bill 

 and legs dusky; gape yellow ; top of the head, including the eyes, 

 and the neck behind, black ; back olive-yellow, paler on the rump ; 

 chin white, continued in a streak on each side, and bounding the 

 black ; all beneath from the chin fine yellow ; thighs pale grey ; 

 on the sides over them a dusky streak; tail even, four of the middle 

 feathers black, the others white.— One, supposed a female, had the 

 top and sides of the head pale ash-colour; back paler ; chin pale; 

 the rest of the under parts and tail as in the male. In both the 

 feathers of the wings are margined with yellow. 



Inhabits India, met with at Cawnpore, in March. — General 

 Hardwicke. 



