wagtail : Idioms & Phrases

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Field wagtail

  • any one of several species of wagtails of the genus Budytes having the tail shorter, the legs longer, and the hind claw longer and straighter, than do the water wagtails. Most of the species are yellow beneath. Called also yellow wagtail.
Webster 1913

Garden wagtail

  • the Indian black-breasted wagtail (Nemoricola Indica).
Webster 1913

Pied wagtail

  • the common European water wagtail (Motacilla lugubris). It is variegated with black and white. The name is applied also to other allied species having similar colors. Called also pied dishwasher.
Webster 1913

Wagtail flycatcher

  • a true flycatcher (Sauloprocta motacilloides) common in Southern Australia, where it is very tame, and frequents stock yards and gardens and often builds its nest about houses; called also black fantail.
Webster 1913

Water wagtail

  • . (a) Any one of several species of wagtails of the restricted genus Motacilla. They live chiefly on the shores of ponds and streams. (b) The American water thrush. See Water thrush.
Webster 1913

White wagtail

  • (Zoöl.), the common, or pied, wagtail.
Webster 1913

Winter wagtail

  • (Zoöl.), the gray wagtail (Motacilla melanope). Prov. Eng.
Webster 1913

Wood wagtail

  • an Asiatic wagtail; (Calobates sulphurea) having a slender bill and short legs.
Webster 1913