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NE\y ORNITHOLOGY OF NEPAL. 



not one which has not white feet, a black bill, and brown iris. Sexes alike, 

 very nearly allied to Velatus Temminhii. 

 'ind Species. Fuliginosus, nobis. 



Size and form, as in 3Iaculatus. Head, neck, back and breast, 

 dusky, or sooty brown : lower back or rump, and body below, white : 

 wings and tail, bill and feet, as in 3Iaculatus ; but the black hue less pure 

 and jetty. Sexes alike. 



3d Species. Immaculatus, nobis. 



Form as in 3Iaculatiis and coloured exactly similarly, save that the 

 breast is white, and the mantle immaculate. Size not larger than Scouleri, 

 allowance being made for the long and typical tail of our species. Sexes 

 alike, and bill, feet and iris, as before. 



Remark. The discovery of iScowZm proves that 'tail forked' is a dubi- 

 ous mark of this genus, or rather subgenus, for such only is the value of the 

 group. Very nearly as it is affined to 31otaciUa, I should distinguish it, 

 chiefly, by its lunate nares nearly closed by an unarched membrane, its 

 gradated wings with short tertials, and its bristly gape. 



The tarsi are higher and smoother, but 7iot more slender, than in 3Iota- 

 cilla proper, several species of which have similar claws. 



Genus. MoTACiLLA Auctorum. 



Suba-enus. Budytes Cuvier. 



Species, new ; Calcarata, nobis, closely allied to 31. Neglecta. Obvi- 

 ously distinguishable from the typical Wagtails by the shortness of the tail, 

 the superior height and strength of the tarsi, and the longer, straighter, and 

 extremely acuminated nails ; the hind one of which is longer than its toe, 

 and, in our species, as nearly straight as may be, 7f inches long, whereof 

 the tail is but extending only two inches beyond the tips of the wings. 

 Expanse of wings 11 inches, weight less 1 oz. : bill \% of inch, and equal 

 to head. Tarsus 1^ : central toe \^ : hind -j^ its claws Above 

 the flanks, grey slaty : below, bright yellow : a yellow line on each side 

 the head, above the eye, from bill to nape : wings, 6 central tail feathers, 

 and upper coverts of tail, black : the great coverts of wings and the alar 

 plumes, very widely margined below, and also tipped with Avhite : the 



