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rubidus \qx. fervidus (Sliarpe, Cat. B.B. M. vii. p. 653), with 

 streaked flanks^ is confined to the north island of Japan. 



Accentor nipalensis. 



The skin sent (No. 2731) from Fujisan^ not far from Yo- 

 kohama, agrees with the remains of the type of A. erythro- 

 pygius in the Swiuhoe collection. This bird has recently 

 been made (Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. vii. p. 663) a sub- 

 species of A. alpinus ; but I cannot find that it differs in 

 any particular from A. nipalensis. 



Anthus ludoviciaxus. 



Mr. Blakiston has sent a fine series of fifteen examples of 

 A.japonicus, all of which are absolutely identical with Ame- 

 rican birds. One example is almost an exact duplicate of 

 the bird figured in Swainson and Richardson^s ' Fauna Boreali- 

 Americana ^ (see Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. ii. p. 248). 



MoTACiLLA BLAKisTONi, Sccb. Ibis, 1882, p. 91 ^. 



I have now a fine series of this excellent species of both 

 sexes in summer and winter plumage, both adult and young. 

 They all have more white on the basal half of the primaries, 

 especially the three first, than can be found in any of the 

 allied species. The male has a black back in summer, but 

 females in both seasons and males in winter have the back 

 grey mottled with black. The ear-coverts, cheeks, and sides 

 of the neck are always white, and in adults the shoulders are 

 black and the secondaries white, or nearly so. The throat is 

 black in summer and white in winter, but the breast is 

 always black. 



MOTACILLA JAPONICA. 



This species may be recognized in both sexes, at both 

 seasons and at all ages, by its stout bill and by its never 

 having the cheeks and ear-coverts white ; they are black in 

 adults and grey in the young. The only white on the head 

 is the chin, forehead, and eye-stripe. In this species the 

 back, throat, and breast of the male are always black, 

 and of the female always dark grey. As in the preceding 

 * [See Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 144.— Edd.J 



