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similar) black-and-white Wagtail, the bird has been walking 
with its characteristic motion on the mud or sand or drift¬ 
wood at the margin of a stream, or flying swiftly over the 
water from one such place to another, sometimes with a 
sharp cry. But my specimen (No. 1873) was obtained while 
walking in the village street. Wading birds are often seen 
in such a situation, but this bird was shot in July, and was 
probably a resident (unless it could possibly have been on 
migration from the south). 
1636. Motacilla flava. [Amalaka.] 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1908, p. 341. 
The Yellow Wagtail is often seen in the village streets 
and much-frequented paths in the latter part of October, in 
November, and even in December. I have not yet noted it 
in other months. If it goes further south and returns 
again in the spring, I have failed to observe it on its return. 
1647- Anthus trivialis. 
Reich. V. A. iii. p. 311. 
No. 2910. $ . Bitye, near the River Ja, Feb, 23, 1908. 
Shot in a cassava-patch. 
1743. Phyllostrephus clamans. [Mali.] 
Bleda clamans Sharpe, Ibis, 1907, p. 460. 
In this paper I have not often departed from Dr. Sharpe’s 
naming of my birds. But I am glad of any authority that 
I can follow in removing this bird and others of Reichenow’s 
genus Phyllostrephus from such close association with Bleda 
not at a and B. syndactyla. These last are not only quite 
different in appearance, but are forest-haunting, insect-eating 
birds, often caught in snares among the dead leaves on the 
ground, whereas the species of Phyllostrephus mentioned in 
this paper are birds of the opener country, never caught 
in snares on the ground, while they live on fruit, and have 
lively and peculiar call-notes, in which the different species 
resemble each other. 
The present species is given by the Bulu the same name 
as the Indicator , 44 Mali,” probably from the resemblance in 
colour, and especially in the white outer tail-feathers. It is 
