336 



THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Motacilla melanope, Pall. (Grey Wagtail). 



Motacilla boarula, Linn., Mant. p. 527 (1771). 



M. melanope, Pall., Keis. Russ. Reichs, iii. App. p. 696 

 (1776). 1 



Europe (occurs in the Azores), Madeira, Egypt, Asia Minor, 

 Arabia, Palestine, Persia, India, Ceylon, Assam, Tenasserim, 

 Pegu, Siam, Penang, Malacca, Java, Borneo, Tukang-Besi 

 Islands, Buru, Amboyna, Great Banda, Moa, Darna, Morty, 

 China, Japan, Cebu. 



The food of the Grey Wagtail consists chiefly of aquatic 

 insects and larvae. The egg is described in Dresser's 1 Manual 

 of Palsearctic Birds,' p. 203. 



[Pitta vigorsi has been obtained on Darnmer or Dama in the 

 Banda Sea (Nov. Zool. vii. p. 18). That it has occurred on 

 Darnmer or Dama is doubtful. Edoliosoma dispar and Chalco- 

 phaps ckrysochlora were obtained by M. Kiihn at the Banda 

 Islands (Nov. Zool. vii. pp. 552, 553).] 



