WAGTAILS. 
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Europe, chiefly to the temperate parts of it; 
and Temminck states, that in some parts of France 
it only appears during winter, performing a par- 
tial migration in the breeding time. In the 
British Islands it is generally distributed. 
Top of the head and nape gray, streaked longi- 
tudinally with brown ; the auriculars brown, 
having the shafts of the feathers pale ; back, wing 
coverts and rump yellowish brown ; centre of the 
feathers, except on the rump, liver brown, which 
form in their disposal longitudinal streaks of that 
dark colour ; feathers, composing the wings, 
liver brown ; the outer webs nearly yellowish 
brown, margined with yellowish gray ; the middle 
wing coverts tipped with white ; the tail deep 
yellowish brown ; the throat, breast, sides of the 
neck bluish grey ; belly grayish white ; flanks 
and under tail coverts pale yellowish brown, hav- 
ing the centre of the feathers darker, and which, 
from their loose texture there, makes the whole 
appear of a brownish tint. Plumage of the female 
is nearly similar. 
We now enter another of Mr Swainson’s sub- 
divisions, the Moiacillinw or Wagtails. The 
passage from the Titmice will be led by means of 
Accentor., and by the American genus Seiurus, 
more particularly by S. aquaticus ; thence to 
Budytes of Cuvier to the true wagtails and 
Anthi or Pipits ; but the British genera being 
extremely limited, many other foreign types 
intervene to fill up the blanks in the complete 
