BIRDS. PASSERES. 86. Motacilla. 
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Inhabits almoft every where ; 7 inches long ; frequents the 
fides of ponds and fniall ftreams ; feeds on infers ; runs 
fwiftly and continually wags its tail ; lays 5 white eggs fpot- 
ted with brown. 
£ill, hind-head, nape, throat and kp black ; front, orbits, 
lides of the neck and belly white ; body above cinereous ; 
greater quill-feathers blackifh, iecondary and zuing-coverts 
' dufley, edged with grey ; middle taii-featkers blackj edged 
■with grey. 
female, crown brown. 
^lack, beneath white : oblique band on the wings and la- 
teral tail-feathers white. Pied PPagiaiL 
Inhabits Madrafs. 
Female cinereous where the male is black. 
Grey-alh, beneath white : bread (in the male) with a 
band ; tail black, the 2 outmoft feathers moftJy 
W’hite. Cinereous Wagtail, 
Inhabits Europe ; 6^ inches long ; frequents waters. 
■Bill and kgs brown ; primary quill-feathers btackifh-brown, 
fecondary and coverts blackifh, edged with dull white. 
Greenifli-grey,* beneath yellow : bread with i curved con- 
fluent bands : middle tail-feathers greenifh-grey, the 
red blackifh-brown, the outmod and vent white. 
Indian Wagtail* 
Inhabits India. Irids yellow. 
Greenifh : head, wings and tail cinereous : edges of the 
wings and tail, and belly white. Green Wagtail. 
Inhabits Ceylon : 4 inches long. 
Olive-brown, beneath white fpotted with ferruginous r 
■ fpot between the bill and eyes, 2 bands on the wing- 
coverts and greater part of the outmod tail-feathers 
white. Tehutfehi Wagtail. 
Inhabits the fhores of Tehutfehi, 
^Fing-cooerts and primary quillfeathers brown ; vent yel- 
lowifh ; tail long, blackifh ; kgs black. 
Yellowifh-brown, beneath yellow ; - lower tail-coverts 
white : bill, eyebrows, wings, tail and legs black. 
African Wagtail. 
Inhabits the Cape : Icfs than M. alba. 
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