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young of S.pinus; Syl. rara is the young male of S. azurea; S. pjal- 
marum, Bon., is identical with S. petechia, Bon. ; S. pusilla, Wils. and 
S. sphagnosa, Aud., are identical with 8. canadensis ; S. tigrina. Bon., 
does not agree with that of Latham, but with Syl. inontana ; S. Roscoei 
is the young of the common Maryland Yellow Throat; S. Childrenii, Aud., 
is the common Summer Yellow Bird not completely feathered, which 
broods in this state. 
Of the genus Drymoica, A. Smith has given, in the Illust. of the Zool. 
of South Africa, No. 16, the description and drawings of D. substriata, 
pallida, rnjicapilla, Le Vaillantii, tetrix, and terrestris. 
The Wagtails {Budytes) have now been extended by Brehm 
to ten species. (Isis, p. 511 and 566.) 
They are called — 1. B. atricapillus, Br. {Motacilla melanocephala, 
Licht.) : 2. B. melanocephalus, Boje. (if. melanocephala, Licht.) ; 3. B. 
Feldeggii, Mich. : 4. B. cinereo-capillus, Savi : 5. B. caniceps, Br. (if. 
cinereo-capilla, Auct.) : 6. B. megarhynchos, Br. (if. Jlava, Auct.) : 
7. B. hoarulus (if. hoarula, Linn.) : 8. B. chrysogaster, Br. (if. jlava, 
Linn.) : 9. B. jlavus (if. jlava, Linn.) : 10. B. jlaveolus, Temm. (if. 
Jlava, Gould). Brehm himself confesses, that the distinction between 
Nos. 2 and 3 is very difficult, and between 3 and 5 still more so ; when 
young, perhaps quite impossible : it is not possible to come to a conclu- 
sion, as he says, without examining the shape of the bill and head. But 
if the species admit of slight variations in the colour, why should it not 
also do so in the form of the head and bill? Selys Longchamps men- 
tions, in his Faune Beige, p. 88, five Yellow Water Wagtails, — 1. Mota- 
cilla jlava: 2.M. cinereo-capilla: 3. Jf. melanocephala : ^.M.jlaveola: 
and 5. Jf. hoarula. The Jf. cinereo-capilla, of which he shot a speci- 
men at Liittich, he is inclined to suppose a southern race of Jf. jlava. 
Sundevall, in the K. Vet. Acad. Handl. Stockh. 1842, p, 47, divides the 
Motacilla jlava into five varieties: — Var. 1. [Anglica, M. jlaveola, 
Temm.) ; capite semper virescente, colore dorsi : Var. 2. {Vulgaris Sue- 
cana); dilutior, pure Iseteque colorata, superciliis perfectis, latis, lora 
fere implentibus limboque gulari lato pure albis. Maculas colli pecto- 
risque pallidiores fuscae : Var. 3. {Borealis e Lapponia) ; obscurior 
paullo sordidius colorata, loris definite nigris, limbo gulari colore juguli ; 
maculas colli pectorisque distinctae, obscuriores ; apices tectricum ex 
fuscescente sordidae. ^ caput obscure canescens, lateribus pure nigrum ; 
vetus superciliis plane nullis, fronte vertieeque fere nigris: Var. 4. {Dal- 
matica, Bruch., Jf. Feldeggi, Jf. cinereo-capilla?) Var. 5. {Africana, 
Jf. melanocephala, Licht.) 
The reporter would rather recognise local varieties than different 
species in the described deviations of Motacilla jeeva. 
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