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Motacilla cinereo-capilla, Savi, Nuov. Given
--— borealis, var. ß , Bias. List o f Bivé •
flava cinereocapiRa, Schleg. Rev. C>’>
— Feldeggi, Mich.
— dalmatica, Bruch.
________ melanocephala. Savi (nee Licht.), «snì
Bvdytes cinereocapilh, Bonap. Consp. Gen. A?
nigricapUh, Bonap- ibid., Buaijtes^ sjfc.
A very beautiful specimen of this Wagtail Ww*
it becomes necessary to give a figure* and *
am happy to do, inasmuch as it affords me m ■
puzzling members of the genus Budgies. At $*>*&$!!■
opinions of ornithologists as to which is and M
some believing that several of the so-caded speew1*
still further than has yet been done; and it is not
ferent countries frequented by these birds are bmm
that the vexed question as to die number of spec«?«
is even a question with me whether the bird 1 i»
true Motacilla flam of Linnaeus, or if die one hen? fcgpiiiil
Swede. If this should ultimately prove to he the < w .. »;
and the above list of names sink into synonyms. In* • <:■ &&:-!■*>>
of ornithologists hasr in a great measure arisen from ?(*.
same size, and from ffee wWttWh se*« yewng neing t»*» -•
unerringly it becomes ;vo.x^*vy.'y 'iv 5 R*15 f 1
fiilly done, I venture towsfW * wtn b eau easy a»
group of birds, and to prw* &Ht- *wy i mnpnsc even mo
one momeut that the ydUw Budgies Bayi of «u
(Licht.) of the Lower Nile, ft»* ivimea, and Asia Minor are i
careful study of these Wagtails duttug the last forty years, 1
pass the summer in Europe—and th at these are the B
Islands), the B .fla m (vel B . iiegkcta) o f W e^tcn. Europe aw! $
and Central Europe (which migrates to Norway in spring it
B . melanocephak, Licht. (distinguished by its jet-black head a*
eastern portions o f Europe, particularly the Crimea, Asia Minor.
I t would, perhaps, be out o f place to enumerate here the spere*
E uropean; hut I may mention th at birds o f this form inhabit
we except the assertion that a Budytes has been discovered in Afew*
there any bird therein which might be regarded as representing the a
there are more species than in Europe, all of which, I believe, aw M
Professor Sehlegel appears to consider that the Budytes tin
assure him that I both saw and shot numerous examples on the .!Wr--fi«!d. m Norway,
were much darker than others, and, moreover, had a dark patch at* she centre of the hi east, n
to he due to the abrasion of the yellow portion of the tea
Respecting the specimen killed in Cornwall Mr. Hock} tti
about the place where it was a t last captured, via waste cabbage p nts on t
sand which separates the eastern marsh from the **
Marazioii Railway Station. I t was in the moot* -i May- 1» uttered a very neat a«
. . . . . . n t _ ..... . „ . . . n i n A i l t n u ;i I .H i'-sO llie : b l i t UO t t t t r which, considering the time of the year, wwy
the time.”
O f all modem authors, it appears to me that frm a p a r te i. the oue who has take., tk t m *