478 MOTACILLID^. 



the middle of the crown to the upper tail-coverts, the lateral ones 

 of which are externally white ; lesser wing-coverts ashy grey 

 mixed with black (entirely black in breeding-dress) ; median and 

 greater coverts pure white ; bastard-wing and primary- coverts 

 pure white, with a little black on the outer webs ; quills white, 

 with black ends to the primaries, which are also mottled with 

 blackish along the outer webs ; the inner primaries white, with a 

 black spot at the ends of the outer webs ; the outer secondaries 

 pure white, the long inner ones black, brownish on the outer webs, 

 and externally more or less broadly edged with white ; tail-feathers 

 black, the two centre ones edged with white, the two outer ones 

 pure white excepting a fringe of black along the inner web of the 

 penultimate feather, the third one with a white shaft and a large 

 white longitudinal mark along the inner web ; lores and a broad 

 frontal baud white, extendiug backwards over the eye and forming 

 a broad eyebrow ; a line of black running from the base of the bill 

 through the eye, and continued along the upper edge of the ear- 

 coverts to the hind neck ; cheeks, ear-coverts, and sides of neck 

 pure white ; chin white ; centre of throat, extending on to the fore 

 neck and chest, black ; remainder of under surface of body pure 

 white, with a wash of ashy grey on the sides ; thigh-feathers black, 

 edged with white ; under wing-coverts and axillaries pure white ; 

 quHls below pure white, with blackish ends to the primaries. Total 

 length 6-5 inches, culmen 0"6, wing 3*7, tail 3-7, tarsus 1. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but never attaining the com- 

 plete black back, which is always more or less intermingled with 

 grey ; the same may be said of the lesser wing-coverts ; the black 

 always remains on the bastard-wing and the primary-coverts, 

 and there is much more blackish brown on the quills. In Capt. 

 Blakiston's collection, however, there is a hen bird with much more 

 white on the third tail-feather than in any other I have seen. 

 Total length 7 inches, culmen {j-6, wing 3-7, tail 3'65, tarsus 1. 



Mab. From Kamtschatka to Japan and Eastern Siberia, as well 

 as China and Formosa. 



a. Ad. hiem. sk. Japan. Purchased. 



b. Juv.hiem.sk. Yokohama. H. Pryer, Esq. [P.]. 



c. 2 ad. hiem. sk. Hakodate, Oct. 29. H. Whitely, Esq. [CI. 



d. 2 juv. hiem. sk. Hakodate, Oct. 10. H. Whitely, Esq. [C.]. 

 e,f, ff. d 2 3.d. Hakodate, AprD {H, Gould Collection. 



sestiv. sk. Wliitely). 



h. Ad. sk. Shanghai. J. R. Reeves, Esq. [P.]. 



i. 5 ad. hiem. sk. Ussuri River, Oct. Warsaw Museum [P.]. 



1873 (Uybmvski). 

 k. 2 ^-d- sk. Ussuri district, April R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(Doeri-iea). 

 I. (S ad. sk. Ussuri district, May R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



(DoeiTies). 

 m, n. (S 2 ad. sk. Island of Askold, R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



May (Doem'ea). 

 o, p. J ad. ; q, r. Petropaulowski, Kamt- R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 

 5 ad.sk. schatka,May(2)i/6o«;- 



ski). 



