268 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



and Chosen (Korea). Occasional in Europe; accidental on Nunivak Island, 

 Alaska. 1 



Family MOTACILLIDAE. Wagtails and Pipits. 



Genus MOTACILLA Linnaeus. 



Motacilla Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 184. Type, by subs. 

 desig., Motacilla alba Linnaeus (Gray, 1840). 



• Motacilla alba alba Linnaeus. White Wagtail. [694.] 



Motacilla alba Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 185. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds from Iceland and Scandinavia to the Mediterranean Sea, 

 east to the Ural Mountains. Winters in tropical Africa, Madeira, and the 

 Canary Islands. Accidental in northern Ungava (Fort Chimo, Aug. 29, 1883), ^ 

 and Greenland (Godhavn).^ 



• Motacilla alba ocularis Swinhoe. Swinhoe's Wagtail. [695.] 



Motacilla ocularis Swinhoe, Ibis, [ser. 1] II, No. 1, Jan., 1860, 55. (Amoy, 

 China.) 



Range. — Breeds in northeastern Siberia. Winters south to southern China. 

 Casual in western Alaska (Attu Island, Aleutian chain,< and mouth of Yukon^) ; 

 accidental in Lower California (La Paz, Jan. 9, 1882)."^ 



• Motacilla alba lugens KiTTLiTZ. Black-backed Wagtail. [695.1.] 



Motacilla lugens "Pallas", Kittlitz, Kupfertafeln zur Naturg. Vog., 

 Heft 2, 1833, 16. (Kamtschatka.) 



Range. — Kamchatka, Kurile, and Commander islands. Casual on Attu 

 Island, Aleutian chain (May, 1913).' 



[Additional races of M. alba occur in Europe and Asia.] 



Motacilla flava alascensis (Ridgway), Alaska Yellow Wagtail. [696.] 



Budytes flavus alascensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, No. 28, 

 Sept. 30, 1903, 105. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



1 Swarth, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., ser. 4, XVII, 1928, 251. 



2 Turner, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., VIII, 1885, 236. 



' Arctic Manual, 1875. Said to breed on east coast (Schiller). 



* Turner, Contrib. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 178; bird seen May 14, 1881, 

 may have been M. a. lugens. 



^ Bishop, N. A. Fauna, No. 19, 1900, 91; six seen supposed to have been 

 this race. 



« Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., IV, 1882, 414. 



? Thayer and Bangs, Auk, XXXVIII, 1921, 460. 



