T?rRD^5 OF IS'ORTH AND MlDnLF AMKHFCA. 5 



A, lull imi/t. Lenuth (skins), ITlt ll»»; (Isc.:,); \s ing, So-lX) (sT.^j; 

 tail, y4-yo (87.5); cxposiHl cuIuhmi. II \?> (\'1.'.\): liii-sus. ->'A--H\ (2-I-): 

 middle toe, 13-15 (14)." 



J^A^/?'/^y//«A'. — Lono-th (skins), ItiS-lTn (ir.!»); \viiij»-, Sti-SC. (S3); tail, 

 7»)-S2(7!»): oxi)()s(mI culinon. 1-2-13(12.5): tarsus. 23; niiddl)^ to.'. 12-U 

 (13).'' 



Paliearctic Keuioii. hrecdino- troiii British Islands eastward to the 

 Yeiiosai \"alley in Siberia, and from the Arctic coast southward ovei" 

 greater part of Kuropc to Egj^pt {'.) and to higli mountains of Pales- 

 tine. Asia Minor, and Persia; miorating in winter southward to north- 

 ern Africa (as far as Senegal and Canary- Islands); accidental in 

 (jrreenland (Godhavn, two specimens) and Ungava (near Fort Cliimo, 

 four specimens. August 29, 1888). 



[MotaciUn'] alba Linnjsus, Sj-st. Xat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 185; ed. 12, i, 17H(), ooX. — 

 G.MELiN, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 960.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 205, no. 3562. 



MotacUla alba Temmixck, :Maii. d'Orii., i, 1815, 254; ii, 1820, 255; iv, 1835, 

 178.— Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., iii, 1823, 803,. pi. 86, figs. 1-3.— Roux, 

 Orn. Prov., 1825, pi. 193. — Werner, .\tla8, Insectivores, 1827, pi. 73. — 

 Gould, Birds Eur., ii, 1837, pi. 143; Birds Gt. Brit., iii, 1863, pi. 2.— 

 Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1839, 221. — Keyserling and Blasus, 

 Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xlix and 174.— Degland, Orn. Eur., i, 1849, 433.— 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 250.— K.t.erbolling, Damn. Fugle, 1852, 

 pi. 19, fig. 1. — ScHLEGEL, Yiig. Nederl., 1854, pis. 100, 101; Dier. Xederl. V(»g., 

 1861, pi. 9, figs. 7, 8, 8a.— SuNDEVALL, Sv. Fogl., 1856, pi. 9, figs. 7, 8.— 

 Walker, Ibis, 1860, 166 (Gfidhavn, Greenland, July). — Reinhardt, Ibis, 

 1861, 6 (Godhavn, s. Greenland; 2 specimens). — Newton, in Baring-Gould's 

 Iceland, 1863, 409; ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1874, .548; Man. Nat. 

 Hist, (ireenl., 1875, 98.— Gray, List Brit. Birds, 1863, 250.— Bau^d, Review 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 152.— Degland and Gerbe, Orn. Eur., 1867, 383.— 

 Keclemans Onze Vog., i, 1869, 25.— Heiglin, Orn. X. O.-Afr., i, 1869- 

 71, 316; iv, p. Ixxxviii. — Fritsch, Vog. Eur., 1870, pi. 21, fig. 14. — 

 Sharpe, Cat. Air. Birds, 1871, 73; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 464. 

 part. — Salvadori, Faun. Ital., Ucc, 1871, 120. — Harting, Ilandb. Brit. 

 Birds, 1872, 23.— Shelley, Birds Egypt, 1872, 126.— Bairu, Bkewkk and 

 RiDGWAY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 165, pi. 10, fig. 1. — Dresser, Birds 

 Europe, iii, 1875, 233, part, pis. 125, 126. — Giglioli, Icon. Avif. Ital., 1881, 

 pi. 163.— RiDGWAY, Noni. X. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 69.— Coces, Check List, 

 2ded., 1882, no. 86.— BRrrisH Ornithologists' Union, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 

 29.— Seeboh-m, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1883, 199.— Tristram, Fauna and Flora 

 Palestine, 1884, 54.— Radde, Orn. Caucas., 1884, 223, pi. 12.— Tcrner, Pnu-. 

 I". S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 236 (near Fort Chimo, Ungava; 4 specimens, 

 Aug. 29, 1883). — .\merican Ornitiioloc^ists' Union. Check List, 1886, mi. 

 694. 



M[otanlla'\ albaGnw, (ien. Birds, i, 1847, 20.;.— C 'a man is, [Shis, llein.. i, IS.'iO, 

 12.— Coces, Key X. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284. — Rincww. M:iii. \. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 533* 



[^M(>tacilla'\ cinerea Gmelin, Sy.st. Nat., i, 178S, 961 (based on Vmcninix ]\'ai/tall 

 Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. 2, 397). 



Mota cilia albeola Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat.. i, 182(), 506, part. 



"Six specimens. ''Two speciinciis. 



