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INSECTIVOR^. 



FamUy MOTACILLIBM. 



Genus Motacilla. (Latham.) 



SOMBRE WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla luguhris. 



Mhtacilla luguhris, 



" leucoptera, 



" lug ens, 



" alha, var. lugens, 



Schwarze JBachstelze, 



Pallas; Tauna Rossica. 

 SiEBALD; Faun. Japan. 



Tab. XXV. 

 KiTTLiTz; Taf. 21, f. i. 

 Bonaparte; Compar. list, 1838. 

 Gould; B. of E., pi. 142. 

 Temminck; Orn. Man., 1836, 



(but not of 1820.) 

 Vigors. 



IXLIGEE. 



Bonaparte ; Conspectus, 



p. 250., 1850. 

 Middendorff; Tkeil. ii., 



p. 166. 

 Meyer ; Orn. Tasch, 



Specific Characters. — Head, nape, beak, scapularies, tertials, 

 upper tail coverts, and upper tail feathers sooty black in winter 

 plumage. Rump ask grey; basal half of primaries, except first, 

 and the secondaries pure white at all seasons. 



Length of male sent me by Mr. Tristram, seven inches and two- 

 fifths; of female six inches and seven-tenths. From carpal joint 

 to tip three inches and a half; tail three inches and three-fifths; 

 beak from gape seven-tenths of an inch. Breadth of lower man- 

 dible at gape one-fifth of an inch; tarsus one inch, 



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