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It is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey; and there is one specimen in the Museum. PIED WAGTAIL. Motacilla lugubris, Temminck. French, "Bergeronette Yarrellii."
The call has been syllabised as kattak-kattak-kattak. Ceryle lugubris. The Himalayan pied kingfisher. Hornbills are to be numbered among the curiosities of nature. They are characterised by the disproportionately large beak. In some species this is nearly a foot in length. The beak has on the upper mandible an excrescence which in some species is nearly as large as the bill itself.
The Pied Wagtail has probably been better known to some of my readers as Motacilla Yarrellii, but, according to the rules of nomenclature before alluded to, Motacilla lugubris of Temminck seems to have superseded the probably better-known name of Motacilla Yarrellii.
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