TIMOR WAGTAIL. 



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Beak and legs black : the prevailing colour of 

 the upper parts of the plumage pale blue, of the 

 under pale 'yellow : the quills and tail are black ; 

 the latter very long : the spurious wing whitish. 

 Inhabits New South Wales. 



TIMOR WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla flavescens.) 



Mo. cinereo-grisea, subtus Jlava, super ciliis jiaxjis^ remigibus r^c- 



tricibusque nigris,Jascia alarum alba. 

 Ashy-grey Wagtail, beneath yellow^ with the eyebrows yellow, 



the quills and tail black, and a white band on the wings. 

 Motacilla flava. /3. Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 504. 8. 

 Bergeronette de I'isle de Timor. Buff, Hist. Nat, Ois. 5. 275. 

 Timor Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 401. 6. a. 



The Timor Wagtail has its beak black, and 

 slightly curved: the upper part of its plumage is 

 greyish ash-colour : the eyebrows and under parts 

 of the body are yellow: the greater wing-coverts 

 are tipped with white : the quills and tail are 

 black : the legs pale red : hind claws very long. 

 Inhabits Timor. 



V. X. p. II. 



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