mL AVP EV: 
MOTACILLA FLAVA. 
YELLOW WaAGTAIL, 
PASSERES. 
Bill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked, 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill weak and flender; flightly notched at the tip. Tongue laces 
rated at the end. Legs flender. Tail frequently in motion, feldom 
perch ; have a twittering noife in flight *. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Bill black: head and upper parts of the body olive green, rump 
paleft: under parts from the throat bight yellow; on the throat a 
few black fpots; above the eye a ftreak of yellow; through the eyes 
another of dufky colour: beneath the eye alfo a ftreak of dufky. 
Leffler wing coverts as the back; the others dufky, edged with pale 
yellow: quills dufky. ‘Tail black except two of the outer feathers, 
which are partly white. Legs dark brown; hind claw very long. 
Moracitta Frava. Linn. Syft. 1. p. 331. N° 12. 
Faun. Suec. 253. 
Scop. ann. 1.-N° 226. 
Brun. N° 272,294. 
* Vide Latham’s divifion of the Motacilla genus. 
I | Muller. 
