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BLACK-CROWNED WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla atricapilla.) 



Mo. JiiscO'Viibra subtus alba, vertice remigibusque nigris, rectrici- 



bus Juscis Jiavescente dimidiatis. 

 lled-brown Wagtail, beneath white, with the crown and quills 



black; the tail-feathers half fuscous, half yellowish. 

 Motacilla atricapilla. Lath. Ind. Orn. Sup. liii. 1. 

 Black-crowned Wagtail. Lath. Syn. Sup. II. 231. 4. 



A NATIVE of New South Wales : it is the size 

 of the White Wagtail : its beak is yellow : the 

 crown of the head is black : the back and wings 

 are reddish brown: the quills are black: the under 

 parts of the body are white, the breast inclining 

 to orange ; the tail reddish brown at the base, and 

 yellowish at the tip : legs yellow. 



JAVAN WAGTAIL. 



(Motacilla Javensis.) 



M.O. Jusco-olivacea subtus Jlava, collo iriferiore pectoreque griseis^ 

 rectrice prima tota, secunda tertiaque latere interiore apiceque 

 .. albis. 



Olive-brown Wagtail, beneath yellow, with the lower parts of 

 the neck and breast grey ; the whole of the first tail-feather, 

 and the second and third, on the inner web and tip, white. 



Motacilla javensis. Briss. Orn. 3. 4/4. pL 25. 2. 



Motacilla Boarula. j3. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 503. 4. 



Bergeronette de Java. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois, 5. 272. 



Javan Wagtail. Lath, Gen, Syii, 4. 399. 4. a. 



