HIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 7 



stnig'^ler to western Alaska (Attn Islaucl, Aleutian Chain; mouth of 

 Yukon River); accidental in Lower California (La Paz, 1 specimen, 

 January 9, 1882). 



Motacilla alha var. Ingenx (nut Moiacilla Imjeiis Kittlitz) Middendorff, Sibir. 

 Reise, ii, pt. 2, 1853, 166. 



MotacUh ociilariif Swixhoe, Ibis, Jan., 1860, 55 (Amoy, China; coll. K. Swinhoe) ; 

 1863, 94, 309; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 275; 1870, 129; 1871, 364.— 

 Taczanowski, Journ. fiirOrn., 1873, 82; 1874, 335; 1875, 252; Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1876, 150; 1882, 389; Orn. Fauna Vost-Sibir., 1876, 33; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1887, 603 (Seoul, Corea, Apr.); 1888, 464 (Corea, fall and win- 

 ter). — Prievalski, in Rowlej-'s Orn. Misc., ii, 1877, 192.— Seebohm, Ibis, 

 1878, .345; 1883, 92; 1884, .39.— David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1878,299.— 

 Hume and Davisox, Stray Feath., 1878, 518. — Hume, Stray Feath., 1879, 

 103, 413.— Scully, Stray Feath., 1879, 312, 315.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iv, 1882, 414 (La Paz, Lower California); vi, 1883, 145, part (crit.); 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Oct., 1882, 257 (La Paz).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 147 (Plover Bay, Siberia).— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1883, 

 62, pi. not numbered (Plover Bay); Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 205 

 (Plover Bay, etc.).— Beldixg, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 535 

 (La Paz).— Oates, Birds Brit. Burma, i, 1883, 158.— Dybowski, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, viii, 1883, 360. — Stejneger, Naturen, 1884, 5 (Bering I., Kam- 

 chatka; accidental); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 284 (do.); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 145 (do.). — Blakistox, Amend. List Birds Jap., 

 1884, 54.— (?) Turxer, Auk, ii, 1885, 157 (Attu I., Aleutians; accidental); 

 Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 178, pi. 1.1.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 X, 1885, 471, pi. 4, figs. 5, 6. — Americax Orxithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 695.— Bishop, N. Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 91 (Aphoon, 

 uiouth of Yukon R., Alaska, 1 flock, Aug. 28). 



[MotaciUa^ ocularw Gii.w , Hand-list, i, 1869, 246, no. .3576 (exel. syn.). 



MloiaeHIa] ocularis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284.— Ridgway, 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 533. 



Motacilla alba . . . subsp. ocularis Palmex, Vega-Ex]>., 1887, 267 (T^chuktsch- 

 halfon, n. e. Siberia, June 21). 



Motacilla haicalens-l.<< var. temporalis Swixhoe. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 363. 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. 

 Btidytes CvviER, Regne Aiiim., i, 1817, 371. (Type, Motacilla Jlava Linnfeus.) 



Motacillida^ with yellow under parts, but with the hind claw longer 

 than its digit, slender and slightly arched; otherwise essentially as in 

 Motacilla^ V>ut with tail relatively shorter and tarsus longer (the former 

 decidedly .shorter than the wing, the latter nearly twice to more than 

 twice as long as exposed culmen), and tip of wing usually more 

 pointed, with outermost (ninth) primary longest or at least decidedly 

 longer than the sixth, which is ai)ruptl3' longer than the fifth. 



Coloration. Under parts yellow, without black on throat or chest: 

 back olive-green; or if gray or black the whole head yellow. 



Nidijication. — Nest on ground, usually concealed b}- tufts of grass, 

 open above, bulky, composed of grasses, mosses, rootlets, etc.. lined 

 with softer materials; eggs whitish or pale bluish, freckled, mottled, or 

 speckled with brown. 



Range. — PaLTarctic Region. 



