PASSEEES. 
Earn. MOTACILLID^. 
Bill lengthened, more or less slender, straight ; the culmen curved at the tip. Nostrils 
placed nearer the margin than the culmen. Wings with the first three feathers nearly equal ; 
the tertials greatly elongated, often exceeding the primaries. Legs and feet variable. The 
tarsus more or less lengthened and covered with transverse scales ; hind claw variable, in some 
much lengthened. Tail of 12 feathers, lengthened and narrow. 
Of small size, elegant form, and mostly of terrestrial habit. 
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Genus MOTACILLA. 
Bill lengthened, typically slender, compressed towards the tip ; the culmen sloping from 
the base, curved at the tip. Wings with the first three quills nearly equal, and either the 1st, 
2nd, or 3rd the longest ; tertials nearly equal to the primaries. Tail equal to, or longer than, 
the wings ; narrow and rounded at the tip. Tarsus longer than the middle toe and claw, the 
lateral toes subequal, the outer, if any thing, the shorter ; hind claw short and curved. 
MOTACILLA M ADEEASPATENSIS. 
(THE INDIAN PIED WAGTAIL.) 
Motacilla mademsjpatana, Brisson, Orn. iii. p. 478 (1783) ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. 
p. 137 (1849); Layard, Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 1853, xii. p. 268; Jerdon, B. of Ind. 
ii. p. 217 (1863); Hume, Nest and Eggs, ii. p. 377 (1874); Ball, Str. Feath. 1874, 
p. 415 ; Brooks, ibid. 1875, p. 246 ; Butler & Hume, t. c. p. 489 ; Davidson & Wender, 
ibid. 1878, p. 84; Ball, t. c. p. 219. 
Motacilla maderaspatensis, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 961 (1788) ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458. 
Motacilla picata, Frank!. P. Z. S. 1831, p. 119. 
Black-and-Wldte Wagtail ; Bergeronnette de Madras, Bufibn ; The Great Pied Wagtail, Gould. 
Mamula, sometimes Bhuin maniula, also Khanjan, Hind. ; Sakcda sarela gadu, Telugu 
(Jerdon). 
Adult male and female. Length 8'5 to 8'75 inches ; wing 3'7 to 4’0 ; tail 4'0 to 4T ; tarsus I'O ; middle toe anc 
claw 0-8 ; bill to gape 0-8 to 0-82. 
Iris dark brown ; bill black ; legs and feet brownish black. 
Male, breeding-plumage. Upper surface, from the forehead to the upper tail-coverts, and also the entire neck 
and throat glossy black ; wings and all but the two outer pairs of tail-feathers less intense black than the 
foregoing parts ; a broad stripe passing from the nostril over the eyes and down as far as the nape, the tips and 
outer webs of the median and greater secondary-coverts, a very broad outer margin to the secondaries, and the 
two outer pairs of tail-feathers white ; the base of the primaries and secondaries, a narrow outer edging to 
the former, and the under surface from the chest to the under tail-coverts also white, as are likewise the under 
wing-coverts ; flanks greyish at the junction with the black of the upper surface. 
