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YELLOW WAGTAIL. 
Our next two birds shew the form from which 
the Baron Cuvier framed his genus Budytes; 
since the separation they have been assimilated 
with MotaciUa, or retained as a sub-genus, accor- 
ding to the different opinions of systematists ; and 
for the present we shall retain them in the rank of 
the latter. In form they merge into that of Anihus, 
which should almost immediately follow them, 
and in their habits they may be found frequenting 
the meadow lands and pastures in the vicinity of 
streams, rather than the brinks of edges of the 
water itself. 
Budytes, Cuvier. — Generic characters. — 
Bill slender, straight, mandible slightly 
notched, rictus smooth ; wings with the 
three first quills nearly equal ; legs, with the 
tarsus and middle toe nearly equal, lateral 
toes nearly equal, hind toe long, the claw 
lengthened, as in anthus, and slightly bend- 
ing ; all these parts rather weak. 
Note. — Colours, yellow beneath, above olive 
or gray. 
Types, B.Jlava, neglecta. 
The Yellow Wagtail — Budytes Flava. 
— Motacilla jiava, Will. Ray . — Yellow Wagtail , 
Selby, and modern British Authors. — As in the 
case of the preceding birds, two species have also 
been confounded under the name of “ Jiava, or 
Yellow Wagtail;" the one common in Britain, 
