478 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol.xxiii. 



A few remarks regarding the name here employed for the large race 

 may not be out of place. 



Gmelin's MotacUla hmcoi-hoa was leased upon a specimen from Senegal, 

 described by Buffon' and figured in the Planches Enluminees.^ So 

 far as the diagnosis goes '' it tits our bird exactl}^, and all reasonable 

 doubt is dispelled by the dimensions of a Senegal specimen in the 

 Paris Museum, possibly the type itself, measured by Hartlaub ^ who 

 gives 105 mm. (3 inches 10^ lines, pied du I'oi) as the length of the 

 wing. It should Ije noted that Hartlaub also records the typical 

 Saxicola o&nanthe from Senegal (specimen in the Leyden Museum, wing 

 95 mm., 3i inches, pied du Roi). Hartlaub, however, seems to regard 

 the larger bird as a peculiar west African species and not as a large 

 migratory race of the common species. The possiliility of this view 

 being correct is the only consideration which prevents us from posi- 

 tively asserting that the large race which ])reeds in Greenland passes 

 the winter in Senegal. 



Bechstein's MotacUla mnanthe major^ refers probably only to large 

 individuals of the common form. 



For the sake of convenience I append lists of the more noteworthy 

 references to both forms. 



SAXICOLA CENANTHE (Linnaeus). 



1758. MotacUla cenanthe Linn^us, Syst. Nat., 10th ed., I, p. 186 (Europe); 12tlaed., I, 

 1766, p. 332. — Saxicola cenanthe Bechstein, Ornith. Taschenb., 1803, p. 217. — 

 Hartlaub, Syst. Ornith. Westafr., 1857, p. 64 (Senegal). — Dall and Ban- 

 nister, Tran.s. Chicago Acad., I, 1869, p. 276 (Nulato, Alaska). — Tristram, 

 Ibis, 1871, p. 231 (Alaska; Lapland).— Collett, Nyt. Mag. Naturvid., XXIII, 

 1877, p. 103; XXVI, 1881, p. 269; XXXV, 1893, p. 13 (Norway).— Nelson, 

 Cruise Corwin, 1881, 1883, p. 59 (St. Michaels, King Island, Alaska); Rep. 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, p. 221 (Alaska).— Bean, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., 

 V, 1882, p. 146 (Cape Lisburne, Port Clarence, Claniisso II., Alaska).— 

 Seeboh.m Hist. Brit. B. Eggs, I, 1883, p. 301 (Great Britain).— Stejneger, 

 Res. Ornith. Explor. Comni. lis. Kamtsch., 1885, p. 349 (Tchuktchi 

 Penins. ; migration). — Murdoch, Rep. Intern. Polar Exp. Point Barrow, 

 1885, p. 104 (Point Barrow, Alaska). — Bunue, Beitr. Kenntn. Russ. Reich. 



(3), I, 1885, p. .— Palmen, Vega-exp. Vet. lakt., V, 1887, p. 260 



(Pitlekaj, Jinretlen, Tchuktchi Penins. ).— Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. 

 Alaska, 1888, p. 196.— Saunders, 111. Man. Brit. B., 1889, p. 20 (Great 

 Britain). — Bishop, North Am. Fauna, No. 19, 1900, p. 96 (Circle; mouth of 

 Aphoon, Yukon R., Alaska). 



1839. Saxicola (jenanthoides NiGOBS, Zool. i)'/o.sso/y( (p. 19), (northwest America). 



1 Hist. Nat. Ois., quarto ed., V, 1788, p. 249. 



opiate 583, fig. 2. 



^"Un pen plus grand que le motteux de nos contrees, & ressemble tres-exactment 

 a la femelle de cet oiseau, en se figurant neanmoins la teinte du dos un peu plus brune, 

 & celle de la jjoitrine un peu plus rougeatre." 



^Syst. Ornith. Westafr., 1857, p. 64. 



*Naturg. Deutschl., IV, 1795, (p. 646.) 



