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alley’s naturalist’s library. 
Budytes rayi, Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 212 (1859). 
Motacilla rayi. Newt. ed. Yarr., i., p. 564 (1874). 
Motacilla ran, Dresser, B. Eur., iii., p. 277, pi. 131 (1875); 
B. O. U. List. Br. B., p. 31 (1883); Seeb.,‘Br. B., ii., 
p. 212 (1884); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. vi. (1888); 
Saunders, Man., p. 121 (1889). 
Adult Male in Breeding Plumage. — General col ilir olive-yellow 
above, and bright yellow below; the under tail-covcrts bright 
yellow like the breast; head also bright yellow, as well as the 
eyebrow, the hinder crown like the back. Tot'd length, 6-3 
inches ; oilmen, 0-5 ; wing, 3T5 ; tail, 27 ; tarsus, o'9. 
Adult Female — Similar to the male, but not so bright in 
colour, and having the forehead greenish like the head, instead 
of being bright yellow as in the male. 
Adults in Winter Plumage. — Greener than in summer, the fore- 
head like the rest of the upper parts : a broad yellow eyebrow, 
ear-coverts greenish; under-surface of body yellow, with a 
slight tinge of saffron on the breast. 
Young Birds. — Olive-brown above, more yellow on the lower 
back and upper tail-coverts ; a broad eyebrow of pale fawn- 
colour; ear-coverts brown; chin and cheeks whitish; throat 
and chest pale fawn-colour, with dusky spots on ihe latter; 
lower flanks, abdomen, thighs, and under tail-coverts, bright 
yellow. 
Range in Great Britain. — A summer visitor only, breeding in 
most parts of England and the south of Scotland, as well as 
near Lough Neagh and the neighbourhood of Dublin in Ire- 
land. It is not known to breed west of Somersetshire, and 
occurs only on migration in our south-western counties. In 
spring and autumn it is a very common migrant on the lands 
near the coast. 
Range outside the British Islands. — The Yellow Wagtail is 
chiefly a western bird, nesting in the north of France, but 
elsewhere only known as a migrant on its way to or from its 
winter honm in Western Africa. Specimens have been sent 
from the Za nbesi and the Transvaal, but these may be 
migrants from Turkestan or Southern Russia, where the Yellow 
Wagtail is also found, and it is most probable that the line of 
