MOTACILLA BOARULA 
GREY, or WINTER-^WAGTAIL, 
Generic Character. See M. vulgaris. 
MoTACiLLA Boarula; corpore cinerea subtus flava, rectrice 
prima tota, secunda latere interiore alba. 
Grey Wagtail. Body cinereous, beneath yellow ; first 
tail feather entirely white, the second white on 
the inner side. 
MoTAciLLA Boarula. Lin, ManL 177L p. 527; 
Gmel. Lin, Si/st. v. 2. p. 997. Lath, 
Ind. Orn, v, 2. p. 502. 
MoTAciLLA Cinerea, an Flava Altera. Rati Syn. 
Av. p. 75. Will. Orn. p. 172. 
MoTAciLLA Plata. Gesner Av. 618. 
Bergeronette Jaune. BrissonAv.S. 471. t.MS.fS, 
Hist. d'Ois. V. 5. 268. PL Enl 28. f. h 
Temm. Man. Orn. ed. 2. pt. I. p. 257. 
Yellow Wagtail. Albin Birds, v. 2. t. 58. 
Grey Wagtail. Br. Zool. 8vo. ed. v. I. p. 492; 
Will. Ang. p. 238. Edwards Birds, 
t. 259. Lath. St/u. v. 4. p, 398. lb. 
Sup. p. 178. Don. Br. Birds, t, 40. 
Lewin Br. Birds, v. 3. t. 95. Gen, 
Zool V. 10. pt. 2. p. 49. Mont. Orn, 
Diet. lb. Sup. Bewick Br. Birds, pt.l. 
p. 205. 
X HIS elegant species rather exceeds the Common Wag- 
tail in size, being seven inches and three-quarters in length? 
and weighing nearly one ounce. The colours of the sexes 
are alike, but in the female they are rather paler. Bill 
slender; irides dark hazel ; legs yellowish brown» 
Our three species of Wagtails greatly resemble each other 
in habits, food, and places of resort ; this, which is not in« 
ferior in beautj of colour or symetry to either of its con- 
