10 The Wilson Bulletin.— No. 42. 



rankest in still another woods. Cypripedijim acaiilc and 

 wintergreen take us southwest and rhododendrons twenty 

 miles southeast. The upland meadows for Bobolinks and 

 Meadowlarks, the cliffs for hawk and eagle, the woods to 

 the south for Oven-bird and Chewink, the lake to the north 

 for duck and Bank Swallow. But for the greatest variety 

 and abundance, all the year round, just around the corner 

 lies the Best Place of all. 



THE MOTACILLID.I^: OF GERMANY. 



W. F. HENNINGER. 



This family, represented in the A. (). U. Check-List by 

 the genera Motacilla, Budytes, and Anthus, is almost en- 

 tirely pakcartic, stragglers only of these genera visiting 

 us in North America. Setting aside the accidental vis- 

 itors of this family in Germany, I had the good fortune to 

 become acquainted with the two species of Motacilla, the 

 one of Budytes and three of the four of Anthus during my 

 eight years' stay in Europe. It may be of some interest to 

 the readers of the BULLETIN to hear more of these birds 

 than the short notes of our manuals and check-lists are able 

 to give, and so I describe them as I saw them in their favor- 

 ite haunts. 



The White and Yellow Wagtails are both described in 

 ojr North American Manuals. The third species, the 

 "Mountain Wagtail" {Moiaci/Ia sulpJiurca), has the upper 

 parts ash-gray, tinged with olive on head and crissum; gen- 

 eral appearance of wings brownish, lores blackish-gray, 

 throat deep black, lower parts lemon-yellow. 



One of the first birds that greeted me, when I reached the 

 broad pasture-lands of Holland in 1885, after crossing the 

 Atlantic, was the merry wagtail. As the big steamer 



