GREY WAGTAIL. 



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Bergeronette jaune. Buff. Hist, Nat, Ois, 5. 2QQ,'—Buff, PI, 



Enl, 2Q.f, 1. male. 

 Yellow Wagtail. Albin. Birds, l.'pl. 58. female. 

 Grey Wagtail. Pen, Brit, Zool. 1. 144. — TVill. Ang, 238. — 



Edwards. pL 259. — Lath. Gen. Si/n. 4. 398. 4. — Lath, Syn. 



Sup, 178. 4. — Don. Brit, Birds, 2. p/. 40. — Lemn, Brit, Birds, 



3* pi, 95. — TValc. Syn, 2. pi. 22y .—BevoicJc, Brit. Birds, 1. I90. 



—Mont. Orn, Diet. 2 Mont. Sup, 



The winter plumage of the Grey Wagtail is as 

 follows: beak dusky: irides dark hazel: the crown 

 of its head, cheeks, back of the neck, back, and 

 scapulars, dark cinereous : rump greenish yellow : 

 eyelids, chin, throat, and breast, buff-coloured 

 yellow ; behind the eye a line of the same : eye- 

 brows pale : wing-coverts and quills black, the 

 former edged with light brown, and the latter 

 slightly edged on the exterior webs of the pri- 

 maries, and the three next the body deeply mar- 

 gined on their outer webs with yellowish white; 

 the inner webs of all, except the three or four 

 largest, are white at the base : the belly pale yel- 

 low : the vent, sides of the upper and the under 

 tail-coverts, bright yellow : the outer tail-feather 

 is entirely white; the second vdiite, except on 

 the outer web, which is black to within half an 

 inch of the end ; the third similar to the last, with 

 a small streak of black on the edge of the inner 

 web ; the two next black ; the middle ones dusky, 

 tinged with ash, and edged with yellow towards 

 the base : legs dusky brown : both sexes are simi- 

 lar. About the beginning of March the chin and 

 throat become black, and by the end of that month 



