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==Taxonomy and systematics== The [[binomial name]] of the grey wagtail ''Motacilla cinerea'' was introduced by [[Marmaduke Tunstall]] in his 1771 publication ''Ornithologia Britannica''.<ref>{{ cite journal | last1=Schodde | first1=R. | last2=Bock | first2=W.J. | year=2008 | title=The valid name for the Grey Wagtail | journal=Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club | volume=128 | issue=2 | pages=132β133 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45653724 }}</ref><ref>{{ cite book | last=Tunstall | first=Marmaduke | author-link=Marmaduke Tunstall | editor-last=Newton | editor-first=Alfred | editor-link=Alfred Newton | year=1880 | orig-year=1771 | title=Tunstall's Ornithologia britannica | language=la | place=London | publisher=J. Akerman | page=2 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13970780 }} A photo-lithographic reproduction of the original publication.</ref> ''Motacilla'' is the [[Latin]] name for the pied wagtail; although actually a diminutive of ''motare'', "to move about", from medieval times it led to the misunderstanding of ''cilla'' as "tail". The specific ''cinerea'' is Latin for "ash-grey" from ''cinis'', "ashes".<ref name =job>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n107 107], 261 }}</ref> The relationships of this species are not well resolved; it belongs to the non-[[Africa]]n [[clade]] of wagtails, these are confusing in their external [[Morphology (biology)|morphology]], and [[mtDNA]] [[cytochrome b|cytochrome ''b'']] and [[NADH dehydrogenase]] [[Protein subunit|subunit]] 2 [[DNA sequence|sequence]] data are not able to robustly resolve their relationships. While the present species is probably most closely related to citrine wagtails and some blue-headed wagtails, the exact nature of this relationship is unclear.<ref name = Voelker>{{cite journal|author=Voelker, Gary |year=2002|title= Systematics and historical biogeography of wagtails: Dispersal versus vicariance revisited|journal=Condor|volume=104|issue=4|pages=725β739|doi=10.1650/0010-5422(2002)104[0725:SAHBOW]2.0.CO;2|s2cid=85844839 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Three [[subspecies]] are recognised:<ref name=ioc>{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=January 2021 | title=Waxbills, parrotfinches, munias, whydahs, Olive Warbler, accentors, pipits | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/weavers/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | access-date=3 June 2021 }}</ref> * ''M. c. patriciae'' [[Charles Vaurie|Vaurie]], 1957 β Azores * ''M. c. schmitzi'' [[Viktor von Tschusi zu Schmidhoffen|Tschusi]], 1900 β Madeira * ''M. c. cinerea'' [[Marmaduke Tunstall|Tunstall]], 1771 β west Europe, Canary Islands and northwest Africa to central, east, northeast Asia
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