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ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS 



1847. — Motacilla boarula Temm. «& Schleg., Faun. Japan, Aves (p. 59) {nee Scop., 

 1769).— KiTTL., Denkw., I, p. 321, 1858.— Swinh., Ibis, 1860, p. 55.— 7d., t6i(i., 

 1861,pp. 35 and 333.— Jd., ibid., 1863, p. 309.— Id., ibid., 1866, p. 138.— M, P. 

 Z. S., 1863, pp. 274 and 334.— Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap.,p, 55 (1884).— 

 Blakist., Ibis, 1862, p. 318.— Dybow. & Parvex, J. f. Oru , 1868,p.334.— 

 BLAKIST. «fe Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, VIII, 1880, p. 220. — lid., ibid., X, 

 1882, p. 155.— BOLAU, J. f. Orn., 1880, p. 120.— Jd., ibid., 1881, p. 55. 



1855. — Pallenura robusta Brehm, Naumauuia, 1855, p. 280. — Id., J. f. Oru., Ih57, p. 32. 



1875. — Budytes novce-guinece A. B. Meyer, Isis, Sitzungsber., April, 1875 (fide Salva- 

 dor!). 



Not having sufficient material for determining whether the eastern 

 and the western bird really are separable as races, or not, I leave the 

 name and the sj^nonymy as above, without further remarks, as, in that 

 case, it would be the European bird, to which a trinomiual appellation, 

 viz, M. melanope grisea (MtJLL.), should be applied. 



The Gray Wagtail is a common summer bird round Petropaulski, where 

 it may be met with along all the small creeks and rivulets. They had 

 not made their appearance in 1883 when I left on one of the last days 

 of May, but a few birds were still observed during the first days of 

 October of the same year. 



Occasionally this species occurs on Bering Island during the migrat- 

 ory season, and, on account of the extraordinary spring of 1883, they 

 were comparatively numerous during the second week of June. It is 

 even possible that a few of them stopped to breed at some creek in the 

 interior of the southern part, as a young bird was taken on board the 

 steamer Aleksander on the 14th of September when about 20 miles south- 

 west of the island. 



They were rather shy and difficult to shoot. 



List of specimens. 



129. Motacilla ocularis Swinh. 



1853. — Motacilla alba vur. lugens Midd., Sibir. Raise, II. 2 (p. 166) {nee KiTTL., neo 

 ScHRENCK, nee Temm. & Schleg.). 



