GRAY WAGTAIL. 
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In Ireland it is equally frequent during the year.* 
Out of Europe it is said to have been met with 
in Madeira, f in India, J Java, Sumatra, § and 
Japan. || 
In winter this beautiful Wagtail is plainly and 
chastely dressed. The upper parts, as far as the 
rump, are bluish gray, tinged on the centre of 
the back with yellow. The rump is a yellowish 
olive ; a white streak, a prevailing mark in this 
genus and the next, runs over each eye ; under- 
neath, the throat is pure white, shading into a 
pale buff orange, which again changes to the 
pale gamboge yellow, which colours the breast 
and belly. The wings are dull brownish black, 
the long scapulars edged with yellowish white. 
The tail, very lengthened, is of the same colour, 
the centre feathers edged with olive, and the 
outer feathers pure white ; the outer web of the 
second and third being edged with dark brown, 
the third having, in addition, a streak of that 
colour on the inner web. In summer, and during 
the breeding season, all the colours become much 
more vivid and brilliant, and the uniformity of 
the lower parts is broken by the gorget of deep 
black which covers the throat and fore part of 
the neck, descending in a point upon the 
breast. 
* Thompson. t Yarrell, Brit. Birds. 
t Gould. § Temminck. II Ibid. 
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