L. Fraser, Esq . [C.]. 

 Col. Swiuhoe [P.]. 

 Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 

 India Museum. 

 Gould Collection. 



Gould Collection. 



li. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 



(Type of B. dubitts.) 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.j. 

 India Museum. 

 India Museum. 

 B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [P.]. 

 Col. Swinhoe [P.]. 



21. Motacilla borealis*. (Plate VII. figs. 1-3.) 



Motacilla flava, var. ^,Lath. Gen. Hist. vi. p. 329 (1820). 



MotaciUa flava borealis, Sundev. CEfv. K. Vet.-Akad. Fork. Stockh. 

 1840, p. 53 ; Finsch ^' Hartl. Viiff. Ostafr. p. 272 (1870). 



Budytes schisticeps, Hodgs. in Grat/s Zoo'l. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 



Budytes fulviventer, Hodgs. in Gi-aijs Zool. Misc. p. 83 (1844). 



Budytes flava melanocephala, De Selys-Longchamps, Faun, Belg. p. 88 

 (1842). 



Motacilla viridis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 203 (1847) ; id. Hand-l. B. i. 

 p. 247, no. 3585 (18(39) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. 178 ; id. B. Fur. 

 iii. p. 181, pi. 129. fig. 3 (1875) ; Se^'bohm, Ibis, 1878, p. 352 ; 

 Danford, Ibis, 1880, p. 96 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1882, p. 109 ; B. 0. U. 

 List Brit. B. p. 31 (1883) ; Danf. Ibis, 1883, p. 20. 



Budytes viridis, Jerd. Madr. Journ. xiii. p. 132 (1844) ; Blyth, J. A. 

 S.' Beng. xvi. p. 430 (1847) ; id. Cat. B. Mus. As. Soc. p. 138 

 (1849) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 250 (1850) ; Kelaart, Prodr. Cat. p. 121 

 (1852) ; Layard, Ann. ^- Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 268 (1853) ; Horsf. 

 Sf Moore, Cat. B. E.I. Co. Mus. i. p. 350 (1854, pt.) ; Irby, Ibis, 

 1861, p. 232 ; Jerd. B. Ind. ii. p. 222 (1863, pt.) ; B/yth, Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 50 : Neicton, t. c. p. 333, 1867, p. 30 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1868, p. 78 ; 

 Bh/th, Ibis, 1870, p. 173 ; Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 458 ; Wald. &r 

 Layard, Ibis, 1872, p. 97 ; Wald. Ibis, 1873, p. 308 ; Blyth ^■ 

 Wald. B. Burm. p. 96 (1875) ; Seebohm S)- Harvie-Broivn, Ibis, 

 1876, p. 122 ; Brooks, Ibis, 1877, p. 208 ; Anders. Zool. Exped. 

 Yun-nan, Aves, p. 608 (1878) ; Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 617 (1879) ; 

 Scully, Ibis, 1881, p. 452 ; Gates, B. Brit. Burin, i. p. 161 (1883} ; 

 Sharpe, ed. Layard' s B. S. Afr., App. p. 853 (1884). 



Motacilla cinereocapilla [lU'c Savi), Eversm. Bull. Mosc. 1850, p. 570; 

 Tristr. Faun, i^- Flor. Palest, p. 55 (1884). 



Motacilla (flava) cinereocapilla, Kjcerb. Danin. Fugle, pi. 19. fig. 4 

 (1852). 



* The name of viridis by which this spcoies is generally known, should, it 

 seems to me, be discarded, Brown's plate, on which the name was founded by 

 Gmelin, not being recognizable as belonging to a \Vagtail at all. The synonymy 

 is as follows : — 



Green Wagtail, Brown, 111. Zool. pi. 33. fig. 2 (1775). 

 Motacilla viridis, Gm. Sysf. Nat. i. p. 962 (1788) ; Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. 

 p. 505 (1783). 



