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YELLOW WAGTAIL. 

 (Motacilla flava.) 



Mo. pectore abdomineque flams, rectricibus duabus lateralibus di- 



midiato oblique albis. 

 Wagtail with the breast and abdomen yellow, and the two outer 



tail-feathers obliquely half white at the tips. 

 Motacilla flava. Lin, Syst. Nat. 1. 331. 12. — Lin, Faun. Suec. 



253. — Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. q63. — Ray. Syn. 75. a. 2.— Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 2. 504. 8. 

 Motacilla verna. Briss. Orn. 3. 468. 



Bergeronette de Printemps. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5, 265. pi. 

 ' 14./. I.— Buff. PI. Enl. 674. 2. 



Yellow Wagtail. Pen. Brit. Zool. 1. 143.— P^w. Arct. Zool. 2. 

 396. ¥.*^JVill. Ang. 238.pl. 6Q. — Edwards. 258, — Lath. Gen. 

 Syn. 4.400. 6. — Lath. Syn. Sup, 179. — Lewin. Brit. Birds. 2. 

 pi. 97. — JValc. Syn. 2. 228.— Don. Brit. Birds. 1, pi. 15.—- 

 Mont. Orn. Diet, 2. — Mont. Sup, — Betvick. Brit. Birds. 1. 

 191. 



Length six inches and a half: beak black: 

 irides hazel : the upper part of the head, the 

 coverts of the ears, and back of the neck, pale 

 olive green: the back, scapulars, ,wing-coverts,. 

 and rump, dark olive green: eyebrows white: 

 quills dusky; those next the body, and the greater 

 coverts, edged with yellowish white: the whole 

 of the under parts, from the chin to the vent, 

 bright yellow : tail dusky, except two of the outer 

 feathers that are half white, half black, divided 

 obliquely, and leaving the outer web of the ex- 

 terior one white ; the two middle feathers with a 

 tinge of olive : legs black : the hinder claws very 



