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patch on chest of soot}^ black, connected laterally with a submalar stripe 

 of the same color along each side of throat; bill, legs, and feet brownish. 

 Western Alaska (coast near mouth of Nushagak River, Norton 

 Sound, Kotzebue Sound, Choris Peninsula, near Point Barrow., etc.) 

 in summer; migrating westward through eastern Asia by an undeter- 

 mined route;" winter residence unknown: more western (nearer) Aleu- 

 tian Islands in late summer. 



Budytes flava (not MotacUla flava Linnjeus) Baird, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 

 1869, 3, pi. 30, fig. 1 (St. Michael, Alaska).— Dall and Baxnister, Trans. 

 Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 277 (St. Michael, Alaska, June 9-Aug.).— 

 Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 114 (Choris Peninsula, Alaska). — 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1871, 231 (St. Michael; crit.).— Finsch, Abh. Brem. Nat. 

 Ver., iii, 1872, 37. — Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 167, pi. 10, fig. 2.— Ridgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 38 (St. 

 Michael; abundant, breeding). — Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 34 

 (St. Michael); vi, 1881, 4 (St. Michael); Cruise of "Corwm," 1881 (1883), 62 

 part (mouths of Yukon, Kotzebue Sound, etc., Alaska). 



B[udiites'] flavii>t Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284. 



Btulyte.^ flavus TuB.'s:Eii., Auk. ii, 1885, 157 (Nearer islands, Aleutian group, late 

 summer visit. ) . 



Motadlla flava (not of Linn?eus) Adams, Ibis, 1878, 423 (St. Michael, breeding; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 

 • BudyteK flavus leucostriatus (not Budytes leucostriatu.^ Homeyer) Stejneger, Bull. 

 IT. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 128, part (Alaskan specimens).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 696, part. — Turner, Contr. 

 Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 179 (St. Michael; mouths of Yukon, mouth of 

 Kuskokwim, and Nushagak; habits). — Nelson, Rep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 

 1887, 205, part (St. Michael; St. Matthews, and St. Lawrence islands, 

 Bering sea; habits; descriptions). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, 

 33 (Point Barrow, Alaska, June, Aug.). 



B[udytes] flavus leucostriatus Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 535. 



Genus ANTHUS Bechstein. 



Anthvs Bechstein, (iem. Naturg. Deutschl., iii, 1807, 704. (Type, by elimina- 

 tion, A. aquaticus Bechstein, = Alauda spinoletta Linnaeus.) 



Spipola Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Birds, 1816, 21. (Type, Alauda pratemis 

 Linnseus. ) 



Corydalla YiGORS, Zool. Journ., ii, 1826, 397. (Type, Antkas richardi Vieillot.) 



Pipastes Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 33. (Type, Alauda arborea Gmelin, =.1. 

 trivialis Linnaeus. ) 



Leimonipterab Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 39. (Type, Alauda pratemis Linnaeus.) 



Agrodroma Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 241. (Type, Anthus rufescevs Tem- 

 minck, = Alauda campestris Linnteus. ) 



Cichlops Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 83. (Type C. moriticolus Hodgson, 

 = Anthus richardi Vieillot. ) t 



Oinsediumc Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1850 (pub. 1851), 100. 

 (Type, Anthus lineiventris Sundevall.) 



« Winter specimens from the Philippine Islands apparently belong to this form; 

 but owing to the fact that no winter specimens undoubtedly belonging to this sub- 

 species are available for comparison their identification is uncertain. 



^Erroneously cited a.s Leimoniptila in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 534. 



''Erroneously cited as Cynxdiwn in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 534. 



