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Title: A history of the birds of Europe, not observed in the British Isles
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Bree, Charles Robert, 1811-1886 Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893, engraver
Subjects: Pictorial works Birds
Publisher: London : Groombridge and Sons ...
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e greyof the head from the yelloio of the throat, are tvhite.These are evidently transitional varieties, and did theypoint to real structu.ral changes, would be valuablesupports of the natural selection theory. Of the adult male the top of the head, the nape, andcheeks are of a grey lead-colour; the back and rumpbright olive green; throat, sides, and front of the neckpure white; rest of the under parts bright and deepyellow, having the flanks more or less olive green; wing 146 GREY-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL. coverts bordered with olive green. Wings and tail asin the Yellow Wagtail; beak, iris, and feet, brown. In the female the olive green of the upper parts hasa tinge of russet on the head and back. In the young the upper parts, according to Degland,are ashy green, with the head olive-coloured, yellowbelow, with the throat white, and a yellow superciliaryedge. It is figured by Bonaparte in Fauna Italica, pi.31, f. 2, and by Dubois, Oiseaux de la Belgique,part 77, pi. 93, male and female.
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147 INSECTIVOEJE. Family MO TA GILLIDJE. Genus Motacilla. fLatham.J BLACK-HEADED YELLOWWAGTAIL. Motacilla flava, (Lin.,) Var. Melanocephala. Motacilla melanocepJiala, Boxapaete; Icon. d. Faun. Ital. pi. 31, fig. 3. Degland. Lichtenstein. Dubois. Jlava-melanocepliala, Schlegel; Eevue. viridis, Gmelin. Scopoli. Hodgsojt. Budytes melanocepJiala, Meneteies.Bergeronette, or Hochqueue a fete Noire, Oe the Feench. Scliioarzkopfige gelhe scJiafstelze, Op the GtEbmans. Specific Cliaracters.—Top of tlie Lead and clieeks a deepblack; beak black; tbroat white. Length about six inches. This so-called species was described and figured byPrince Charles Bonaparte, in tlie Fauna Italica/ pi.31. Its claims to specific distinction liave, bowever,been doubted by Temminck and otbers, )Mr. TristramAvrites me word that he has seen every gradation of 148 BLACK-HEADED YELLOW WAGTAIL. colour from M. jlateola, (our YcUoav Wagtail,) up tothe present bird, and lie has sent me specimens wliichbear out this opini

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