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195. The Blue-headed Wagtail. 



Allied forms.— M. f. campestris 1776 must be called M.f. lutea (Gm.) 



1774. 



Distribution.— Bred near Penzance (Cornwall) 1923, also Seaford 



(Sussex) 1922, occurred Ayrshire, June 1920. 



197. The Grey-headed Wagtail. 



Distribution. — One (probably this form) seen near Penzance, May 1923. 



197. The Ashy-headed Wagtail. 



Spanish and Portuguese males have a well-defined white eye-stripe 

 and have been separated (M.f. iberiae Hartert, Vog., p. Fauna, p. 2097) 

 from the Italian M. f. cinereocapilla. In Gould's figure of the only 

 known British specimen a short white eye -stripe is shown over the 

 hind part of the eye, but as Italian specimens rarely have a slight eye- 

 stripe though usually it is absent, it is advisable to retain the name 

 cinereocapilla for the British bird. 



199. The Black headed Wagtail. 



Juvenile. — Two examined differ somewhat from each other, one being 

 more buff and the other whiter on under-parts and tips of wing-coverts,, 

 latter appear more prominent than is usual in juveniles of other forms * 

 oiM.flava. (H.FVV.) 



199. The Yellow Wagtail. 



Synonyms : Motacilla flava var. 1 anglica Sundevall, Kongl. Sv. Vetensk. 

 Akad. Handlingar Stockholm for 1840, p. 53 (1842— England). 

 Motacilla Anglorum Degland, Orn. Eur., i, p. 442 (1849 — Simply stated 

 that Prevost used to call M. rayi by this name). 

 Distribution. — Late dates Nov. 30, Dec. 4, 1920, Cumberland. 



204. The Grey Wagtail. 



Allied forms. — M. c. melanope 1776 must be called M. c. caspica 

 (Gm.) 1774. 



206. 84. Motacilla alba yarrellii Gould.— The Pied Wagtail. 



Motacilla Yarrellii Gould, Birds of Europe, List of Plates, Vol. 



11, p. 2 (1837— Great Britain) 

 instead of M. a. lugubris Temm. which is preoccupied by M. lugubris 

 Lieht., 1819. See Matthews and Iredale, Austr. Av. Rec, IV, p. 132. 

 Synonym (partim) : Motacilla Lotor Ronnie, Montagu's Orn. Diet., 

 2nd ed., p. 377 (1831 — No locality given, description of the Pied Wag- 

 tail, but name meant as a substitute name for Motacilla alba, which 

 name is considered to be unsuitable. Linnaeus's name and French and 

 German descriptions of M . alba quoted and statement " I have changed 

 the specific to Lotor. " The name must therefore not be used for the 

 British subspecies). 



218. The Northern Tree-Creeper. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — The Tree-Creepers of N. America are forms 

 of C. familiaris and not of C. brachydactyla. 



220. The Wall Creeper. 



Distribution. — One seen near Dorchester (Dorset), April 24, 1920 

 (F. L. Blathwayt, Brit. B., xiv, p. 40). 



221. 90. Sitta europaea affinis Blyth.— The British Nuthatch. 



Sitta affinis Blyth, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, xv, p. 289 (1846 — 



England ) 

 instead of Sitta e. britannica Hart. Because Blyth's name can be 

 adopted from his remarks on the preceding page (288) where differences 

 of S. e. europcea were mentioned, which is not the case on p. 289 where 

 the name first appears. 



224. Distribution. — Bred Anglesey, 1921. 



