. A general history of birds . he most part, slaty black on each side of theforehead ; from the nostrils a patch of white, communicating with thechin, which is also white; behind the eye another white patch ; underparts from the breast yellowish white; wing coverts white, markedwith Iongish dusky spots; quills brown; tail long, cuneiform, thetwo middle feathers two inches and a half long, the exterior one inchand a half; colour dusky, with the ends more or less pale, or whitish,the two outer wholly white; legs long, blue black. Inhabits New-Holland, and has the air and manners of ourCommon Wag
. A general history of birds . he most part, slaty black on each side of theforehead ; from the nostrils a patch of white, communicating with thechin, which is also white; behind the eye another white patch ; underparts from the breast yellowish white; wing coverts white, markedwith Iongish dusky spots; quills brown; tail long, cuneiform, thetwo middle feathers two inches and a half long, the exterior one inchand a half; colour dusky, with the ends more or less pale, or whitish,the two outer wholly white; legs long, blue black. Inhabits New-Holland, and has the air and manners of ourCommon Wagtail. 9.—GREY-BACKED WAGTAIL. LENGTH seven inches. Bill five-eighths of an inch long, andblack, with a very trifling notch at the tip; top of the head to theeyes, neck behind, and beginning of the back, greenish black, andsomewhat glossy; the rest of the back, rump, and upper tail coverts,pale, hoary, bluish grey; wings chiefly black, but the inner bend iswhite, passing in a broad streak to the middle of the wing; the *.>. WAGTAIL. 323 second quills fringed with white, the greater wholly black ; all theunder parts of the bird from chin to vent, also the under wing covertswhite; tail three inches long, in shape rounded, the feathers black,the two middle ones fringed with white, and the two outer tippedwith white ; legs black. Inhabits Java, and there called Gadagiee.—A specimen in theIndia House, London, and another in the collection of Lord Stanley. 10.—CINEREOUS WAGTAIL. Motacilla cinerea, Jnd. Orn. ii. 502. Gm. Lin. 961. Bris. iii. 465. t: Id. 8vo. i. 437. Gerin. iv. t. 384. f. 2. Tern. Man. dOm. p. 145. Id. Ed. ii. grise, Bvf.\. 261. PL enl. 674. 1. Hist. Wagtail, Gen. Syn. iv. 397. Shaws Zool. x. 550. LENGTH nearly seven inches. Bill and legs brown ; upper partof the head, neck, and body, cinereous grey ; the under white; acrossthe breast a brownish band; wing coverts and second quills dusky,with whitish edges; greater q
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