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Place;
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CAPE W.
Description.
AFRICAN W.
D escription^
Placed
Very common in Sibirifly even to the arftic circle} found alfb
in Ritffia, but lefs numerous. Has the manners of other Wagtails.
This is perhaps the fame bird mentioned by Lepechin *, which
was fix inches and a half long : the two outer tail feathers
white, and the outmoft ftreaked with black : in other things
as above defcribed.
Motacilla Capenfis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 333. N8 24.
La Bergeronètte da Cap de Bonne Efperance, Brif. orn. ÏH. p. 476. N° 43.
pi. 25. f. 3.— Buf. oif. v. p. 273.— PI. cnl. 28. 2. f
C I z R of the White Wagtail. Bill dulky: the upper parts
^ brown : the under dirty white, inclining to dulky on the
fides : over the eye a whitilh ftreak: acrofs the breaft a dulky
band: quills brown, edged with grey: the tail is black, except
the two outer feathers, the greateft half of which next the end
is white : legs dulky.
La petite Bergeronette du Cap de Bonne Efperance, Buf. oif. v. p. 274.
r p H IS is lefs than the former. The bill black, broad at the
-*■ bafe, (lender at the point, and a little curved : the upper
parts of the body yellowilh brown : beneath yellow, except the
under tail coverts, which are white: over the eyb a ftreak of
black: wings, tail, (which is half the length of the bird) and legs,
black : the hind claw largeft.
From the Cape of Good Hope.
See Voy. vol. ii. p* 187.
Tchutfchi
Tchutfchi Wagtail, Ard. Zoel.
P B O W N of the head, and back, deep olive brown : between
the upper mandible and eye a fpot of white: wing coverts
and primaries deep brown 3 the firft crofted with two bars of
white : breaft and belly white, dalhed with ruft-colour : vent
pale yellow : tail very long ; the whole of the outer, and half
o f the inner, web of the outer tail feather white; all the reft
dulky : legs black.
Found off" the Tchutfchi coaft.
Green Wagtail, Brown, lllujlr. p. 86. t. 33.
JM E N G TH four inches*. Head cinereous: neck, back,
and breaft, pale green : wings and tail cinereous, edged
with white : belly white.
Inhabits Ceylon.
® In the plate—the laze is not mentioned in thedefcription.
to.
TCHUTSCHI
W.
D escription.
Place.
i i . GREEN W.
D escription.
P eace.
3 F 4 Genus