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Catalogue of the Birds 



If the yellow superciliary mark be an unerring characteristic of this 

 British bird, it may also be enumerated as a winter visitant to India. I 

 have shot it in company with B. neglecta, and the last. 



Gen. MOTACILLA, kvcT.—True Wagtail. 



137. — M. hoarula. — Wood ox Jungle Wagtail. 



This species is numerous on the Neilgherries, where it frequents run- 

 ning streams, also enters gardens, &c. It is very abundant on the 

 passes leading up to the hills, hopping along the road, and flying before 

 a traveller, often for some distance. I have once or twice seen it lately 

 in woody streams in the more northern portion of the table land, during 

 the cold weather only. 



138. — M. Maderaspatensis, Auct. — M. picata, Frank!. — M. variegata^ 

 SteiAi.—Mhamoola, H. — Indian Black and While Wagtail. 



This species is found throughout the peninsula, only in beds of rivers. 

 Length nearly 9 inches; tail 4; wing Sixths. 



139. — J/, variegata, Vieill.— Encycl. Method, p. 408. 



I have not myself met with this species, which Mr. Elliot's notes 

 have made known to me as an Indian bird, and from which 1 take the 

 followinf^ description, " Above brown cinereous ; beneath white ; wings 

 medial; tail feathers (not the centre ones), and two chest-bands, black j 

 eye-brows, two diagonal bars on the coverts, and an imperfect third one 

 on the quills, and ends of two outer rectrices, white ; two brownish 

 lines down the throat. Length 6^ inches." I see this is also enume- 

 rated by M. Lesson, as an inhabitant of Bengal. 



UO.r-M. alba, Auct— 3Iot. Duhhunensis, Sykes. —Dhobeen, H. 



I have not hitherto observed this species in the Carnatic, but it is 

 very common over most of the table land, during the cold weather only, 

 migrating to the north, at the commencement of the hot season. It 

 frequents rivers, open fields, gardens, villages, stable yards, &c., and 

 occasionally even enters houses, feeding on a great variety of insects. 



