1. MOTACn-LA. 621 



t". cJad. sk. Ceram. Wallace Collection. 



k". (S hum. sk. Amboyna. Wallace Collection. 



X". c? juv. sk. Amboyiia {Wallace). Goiild Collection. 



m''. c?; ""-Sad. sk. Amboyna. Voy. H.M.S ' Challenger.' 



f. $ad. sk. KajeU, Bouru, Nov. H. 0. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



o". $ad. sk. Kajeli, Bouru, Dec. H. O. Forbes, Esq. [C.]. 



Subsp. a. Motacilla beema. (Plate YI. fig. 6.) 



Budytes dubius, Ilodys. Icon. hied, in Brit. Mus., Passeres, pi. 114. 



tigs. 1-3 (no. 808) ; Brooks, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 1.38. 

 Motacilla beema, Sykes, P. Z. S. 1832, p. 90. 

 Budytes neglecta {7iec Gould), Jerd. Madr. Journ. xi. p. 9 (1840). 

 Budytes dubius vel anthoides, Hodgs. in Gray^s Zool. Misc. p. 83 



(1844). 

 Budjiies flava (non L.), Hume, Ibis, 18G9, p. 3.57, 1870, p. 142 ; Hume, 



Sir. F. 1874, pp. 81, 2.38 ; Ball, t.c. p. 416: Armstr. Str. F. 1876, 



p. 329 ; Bntler, Str. F. 1877, pp. 210, 2.30 ; Blanf. t. c. p. 246 ; 



Brooks, Str. F. 1878, vol. ii. p. 138 ; Hume, t. c. p. 97 ; Ball, t. c. 



p. 219 ; Cripps, t. c. p. 287 ; Hume, Str. F. 1879, pp. 65, 103 ; 



Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 189 ; C. Swinh. Ibis, 1882, p. 110. 

 Budytes brevicaudatus, Homeyer, J. f. O. 1878, p. 131. 



Adult male. General colour above yellowish green, rather brighter 

 yellow towards the lower back and rump ; upper tail-coverts dusky- 

 brown, edged with yellowish, the lateral cues externally white, 

 washed with yellow ; lesser wing-coverts like the back ; median and 

 greater coverts dull brown, edged and tipped with dull olive-yellow 

 or white tinged with olive-yellow ; primary-coverts and quills dark 

 brown, edged with ashy olive ; the secondaries broadly edged with 

 yellowish white, or brown washed with olive ; tail-feathers blackish, 

 edged with pale olive-yellowish, the two outer ones white with 

 a broad oblique mark of dark brown on the inner web ; head light 

 pearly grey as well as the hind neck ; lores dusky, surmounted 

 by a very broad white eyebrow, extending from the base of the 

 nostrils to above the ear-coverts ; ear-coverts white, only the upper 

 portion dark slaty or dusky blackish ; cheeks and chin white : re- 

 mainder of throat and under surface of body brilliant yellow, a little 

 more green on the sides of the upper breast ; thighs ashy ; axillaries 

 yellow, dusky ash-colour at base ; under wing-coverts yellow, with 

 dusky bases to those near the edge of the wing ; quills light brown 

 below, ashy whitish along the inner web. Total length 5-8 inches, 

 culmen 0*6, wing 3-15, tail 2"8, tarsus 0'9o. 



The principal character in which this species differs from M. flava 

 is the white face and ear-coverts. I think that the ashy thighs are 

 probably only the resvilt of worn breeding-plumage, as some examples 

 iindoubtedly have the thighs bright yellow like the abdomen. 



Hah. lleprcseuts J/. ^rt('« in Western and Central Siberia, winter- 

 ing in Afghanistan and in India. Probably occurs in Western 

 Europe and the Mediterranean on migration. 



a. tS ad. sk. Arkad Mountains, near Geogr. Soc. Bremen. 



Seniipalatiusk, May 

 6 {Dr. FinscJi). 



