142 YELLOW-HEADED WAGTAIL. 



males and females have no black cross on tlie occiput 

 after the autumn moult. 



The distinctive characters of the female have been 

 already noticed^ and will be further observed in my 

 figure, which is an adult female in summer plumage, 

 after Middendorf. 



Figured by Gould, pi. 144; Middendorf, Sibirische 

 Reise, ii., pi. 14, fig. 4, 



