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INDIAN WAGTAIL. 



(Motacilla Indica.) 



Mo. griseo-virescens subtus Jiavescens,pectore lunulis duabus tiigris 

 confluentibus, rectricibus duabus extimis Jemoribus crissoque 

 albis. 



Greenish-grey Wagtail, beneath yellowish, with two black con- 

 fluent lunules on the breast; the two outer tail-feathers, thighs, 

 and vent, white. 



Motacilla Indica. GmeL Si/st, Nat. 1. 962. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 

 503. 7. 



Le Bergeronette grise des Indes. Sonner, Voy. Ind. 2. 207. 

 Indian Wagtail. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 399. 5. 



Inhabits the East Indies : beak pale rufous : 

 irides yellow : head, hind part of the neck, lesser 

 wing-coverts, back, and rump, dirty greenish grey : 

 the greater wing-coverts yellow ; the secondary 

 quills part brown, part yellow; the primaries dirty 

 brown, with yellow margins : breast with two 

 lunulated black bands^ coalescing at their tips, and 

 connected with a line of the same colour in the 

 middle ; the rest of the breast, throat, and belly, 

 whitish yellow : thighs and vent white : the two 

 middle tail-feathers greenish grey ; the rest dusky 

 brown; the two outer ones white : legs pale 

 1 rufous. 



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