CAPE WAGTAIL. 



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Motacilla tschutschensis. Gmel. Syst» Nat, 1 . 962.— LaM. Ind, 

 Orn, 2. 505. 12. 



Tschutschi Wagtail. Pen. Arct, Zool. 2. 397. h. — Lath. Gen, 

 Syn, 4. 403. 10. 



This has the crown of the head and the back 

 deep olive brown : the wing-coverts and primary 

 quills deep brown ; the tips of the middle and 

 greater coverts are white, forming two bars of 

 that colour on the wing : between the beak and 

 eye is a white spot : the breast and belly are white, 

 with a tinge of ferruginous : the vent is pale yel- 

 low : the outer tail-feathers white, except the base 

 of the inner web ; the rest of the tail dusky : tail 

 very long : legs black. Native of Tchutschi. 



CAPE WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla capensis.) 



^o, Jusca subtus albida^ Jascia pectorali Jusca, superciliis albisy 



Cauda nigra, rectricibus lateralibus oblique albis. 

 Brown Wagtail, beneath whitish, with a brown band on the 



breast ; the eyebrows white, and tail black, with the lateral 



feathers obliquely white. 

 Motacilla capensis. Lin. Syst, Nat. 1. 333. 24.— Gwe^. Sysi, 



Nat. 1. 979. — Briss. Orn. 3. 476. 45.;?/. 25. f. 3,-- Lath, hid, 



Orn, 2. 505. 10. 



La Bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Esperance. Buff, Hist. 



Nat. pis. 5. 273.— Buff. PI. Enl. 28. f. 2. 

 Cape Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 402. 8. 



Size of Motacilla alba : beak dusky : the upper 

 parts of its plumage brown : the eyebrows whitish : 



