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WHITE WAGTAIL. 



(Motacilla alba.) y 



Mo. fectore nigro, rectricibus duahus lateralibus dimidiato oblique 

 albis. 



Wagtail with a black breast, and the two lateral tail-feathers 



obliquely half white. 

 Motacilla alba. Lin, Syst. Nat. l. 331. 11.— Xiw. Faun. Suec, 



252. — GmeL Syst, Nat. 1. q60. — Ray, Syn, y5,—'Briss, Orn. 



3. 46l. 38 — Lath, Ind'. Orn, 2. 501. 1. — Shatv, Nat, Misc, 



jpl 207, 



La Lavandiere. Buff, Hist, Nat, Ois. 5, 25l.pl i4,f, 1. — 

 Btff, PI, Enl, 652. f, 1. 



Collared Wagtail. Lath, Gen, Syn, 4. 396. 



White Wagtail. Pen, Brit, Zool, l. 142. 55. — Pen, Arct. Zool, 

 2. 396. B. — Will, Ang, 237. — Albin. Birds, 1. pL 49.— Lath, 

 Gen, Syn. 4. 395. 1. — Lath, Syn, Sup, 178. 1.— Z«M. Syn. 

 Sup. II, 230, — Lemn, Brit. Birds, 3, pi. 95. — Wale, Syn, 2, 

 226, — Don. Brit, Birds, 1. pi. 5. — Mont, Orn. Diet, 2. — 

 Mont, Sup. — Betvick. Brit. Birds. I. 188. 



Length about seven inches : weight about six 

 drachms : beak black : irides hazel : forehead, 

 cheeks, and sides of the neck, white : the hind 

 part of the head and neck, the chin, fore-part of 

 the neck, and upper parts of the breast, black ; 

 the edges of the two latter are bordered slightly 

 with white, in the form of a gorget : the back a?ad 

 rump are deep cinereous, in some approaching to 

 dusky : the wing-coverts and secondary quills 

 dusky, bordered with light grey : primaries black, 

 with pale edges : the lower part of the breast, and 

 the under parts of the body, white: the tail- 



