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Birds of Celebes: Motacillidae. 
Adult (winter plumage). Very like the spring plumage, but the chin and throat white, the 
yellow of the under surface paler (Manado tua, 19. lY. 93; Nat. Coll. — 0 12143). 
Eggs. 5, sometimes 6; white, tinted with rose, with subjacent spots of grey, and overljdng 
streaks and httle blotches of olivaceous brown; or white, tinted with yellowish, with 
superjacent spots of reddish brown of little intensity. Size 18.7 X 14.5 mm (Tacz. e 6). 
See, also, Hume d 10. 
Nest. Mr. Brooks remarks; “The situation chosen for the nest is different, and C. melanope 
(the eastern one) is not nearly such a noisy bird when breeding as C. sulphurea. 
One nest that I found in Cashmere, at Kagan, was placed in a small bush on an 
island in the Sind river, about 5 feet above the ground. The situation was that of 
a Pinch’s nest! It was composed of moss, fibres, etc., and lined with hair, a neat 
compact nest, and placed in the forks of the branches near the top of the bush” (d 10). 
A nest described by Taczanowski (e Gj was placed in a bed of flax. 
Breeding time. The bird breeds in May and June (Hume d 10, Godlewski e 6). 
Distribution. East Siberia (Gmelin, Middendorff e ^); Commodore Is. (Stejneger e 6); 
Kurile Is. (Snow i 2)-, Japan (Cassin, Siebold, etc. i 2, d 4)-, Loochoo Is. (Pryer 
i 2, Holst yS); Corea (Kalinowski e 6, Campb. j 2); China (Swinhoe el, David 
e 2, etc.); Hainan and Formosa (Swinhoe el)] Tian-Shan (Bonvalot & Pr. d’Or- 
l^ans d 18)] Himalayas (Brooks d 10)] Afghanistan (W. Eamsay d 10)] Indian 
Peninsula (Oates, etc., e 4, d 2)] Ceylon (Legge d 2, Bligh d 7); Andamans and 
Nicobars (Davison d 2)] Burmah (Oates e 4)] Tenasseifim (Davison e 4)] Malay 
Peninsula (Cantor, etc. d 4, e 4, dll)] Sumatra (Baffl., Buxton, Beccari e .3, 
Modigliani d 15)] Nias (Kannegieter d 2.9); Java (Wallace d 4)] Lombok (Vor- 
derman d 21)] Borneo (Doria & Beccari e 3, Wallace, etc. d 8)] Philippines — 
Palawan (Steere d 12), Luzon, Cebu, T^eyte (Meyer, Everett d 3), Guimara.s, Panay, 
Negros, Samar, Basilan (Steere d 12), Mindanao (Everett d 3, Steere d 12), Sooloo, 
Tawi Tawi, Tablas, Korablon, Sibuyan, Masbate fBourns & Worcester J 79); North 
Celebes (Fischer g 1, g 2, Platen in Mus. Nehrk., Nat. Coll, in Dresd. Mus., 
Sarasin Coll.), South Celebes (Everett i 7); Morty, Temate, Batchian, Amboina, 
Waigiou [e 3, e 5)] Mount Arfak, New Guinea (Meyer hi, e 3). 
As in the AVest, so also in the East, the Grey AVagtail is a migrant, and 
in this part of its range it proceeds to the East India Islands , I urther India, 
India and Ceylon in winter. Taczanowski records the observations of 
V. Schrenck, Dybowski, Godlewski and Kalinowski as to its breeding 
in Corea and various parts of East Siberia, but not in the Arctic Region; Mr. 
Brooks obtained its nest in Cashmere, and Major Wardlaw Ramsay in 
Afghanistan. It passes through Central China on migration in spring and autumn, 
as Mr. Styan shows (d 14)] but Mr. De La Touche (d 16) says it winters 
in South China, and this also seems to he the case in the Loochoo Islands 
from where Seebohm (j 3) records two specimens killed by Mr. Holst in 
January. It reaches the East India Islands in winter in much smaller numbers 
than Motacilla flam] nevertheless in the last twenty years the bird has turned 
up in a continuous line of localities from Luzon to New Guinea. Its chmf 
winter-quarters would appear to be India, Burmah and Ceylon; in some localities 
in these countries it is very abundant in the cold season. It seems to resort 
to Manado tua Island in some numbers; in April 1893 our hunters obtained 
