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of November to the end of April. I have observed it to be most common 
on the banks of the Pegu Canal and in the Sittang river^ and it extends 
down to Rangoon and up to Tonghoo. Mr. Davison procured it abun- 
dantly at Moulmein, and he also found it further north. Capt. Bingham 
got it in the Thoungyeen valley. 
In winter this Wagtail is found, according to Dr. Tiraud, in Cochin 
China. It is also found in China, Formosa and Hainan. It has been 
obtained as a straggler in Cachar and Nipal. In summer it passes into 
Mongolia and Eastern Siberia, and is probably found as far west as the 
Yenesay river. 
Swinhoe^s Wagtail has much the same habits as the common black- 
backed species; but it is never found far from water. It is a very elegant 
bird, and soon becomes familiar. Both at Myitkyo and at Kyeikpadein, 
where the bungalows are close to the banks of the canal, a pair of these 
birds was generally to be seen in the compound, keeping, as a rule, to the 
cleaner portions of the grounds, and occasionally coming into the verandah 
or perching on the rails of the house. 
There are two other species of Wagtails with a black streak through the 
eye. Both of these always have the back black, or grey mottled with black. 
The first, M. blakistoni from Japan, recently described by Mr. Seebohm, 
has the shoulder black and the secondaries nearly all white ; whereas the 
second species, M, amurensiSj has the shoulder grey and the secondaries 
nearly all grey. 
Genus CALOBATES, Kau^. 
153. CALOBATES MELANOPE. 
THE EASTERN GREY WAGTAIL. 
Motacilla melanope, Pall. Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. p. 696 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 
p. 610. Motacilla bistrigata, Raffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 312. Calobates 
sulphurea {Bechst.), apud Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 220. Calobates bistrigata, 
Salvad. Ucc. Born. p. 259. Calobates boarula (Gm.), apud Hume, Nests and 
Eggs, p. 381 ; id. S. F. ii. p. 237. Motacilla boarula, Bl. 8^- Wald. B. Burm. 
p. 97. Calobates melanope, David et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 302 ; Hume, S. F. 
viii. p. 103 5 Scully, S. F. viii. p. 315 ; Biddulph, Ibis, 1881, p. 68. 
Description. — Male in breeding-plumage. Head, ear-coverts, neck, back 
and scapulars dark grey, with a tinge of olive on the back ; rump and 
upper tail- coverts sulphur-yellow, tinged with olive ; a short streak from 
the eye over the ear- coverts and a moustachial stripe white j chin, lores 
and throat black ; the whole lower plumage bright yellow, tinged with 
brown on the sides of the breast ; the three middle pairs of tail-feathers 
