531 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Tezo in summer; southern Japan, Formosa, and eastern China in 

 winter; accidental in Aleutian Islands (Attu ; Tirxku) ? 



M. lugens (Kittl.). Kamtschatka Wagtail.' 

 a'. Lower parts yellow (dull 3-ellowi9h white in young, but lower tail-coverts always 

 yellow), without black on breast; upper tail-coverts olive-yellow or j-cUowish 

 olive-green ; third tail-feather chiefly white. (Subgenus Calohates Kaup.') 

 Adult male in summer: Above ash-gray, including top and sides of head ; 

 lower rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish olive-green, or olive- 

 yellow ; wings blackish, the tertials broadly edged with whitish ; a white 

 superciliary stripe, and a malar stripe of same; chin and throat black; 

 rest of lower parts primrose-j^ellow, deepening into gamboge on under 

 tail-coverts. Adult female in summer : Similar to the male, but chin and 

 throat white or pale yellow bordered laterally and posteriorly hy black- 

 ish or dusky spotting (sometimes with throat more extensively black). 

 Adults in lointer same as in summer, but throat white. Young in first 

 winter : Brownish gray above ; superciliary stripe and chest strongly 

 tinged with buff; otherwise like adults. Young : Above brownish gray ; 

 middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale fulvous, buffy, or 

 whitish, producing two bands on wing; lower parts dull white, faintly 

 shaded with ashy on breast, the lower tail-coverts pale j-oUow. (In 

 younger individuals the superciliarj' stripe and throat buffy.) Length 

 about 7.00, wing 3.20-3.30, tail 3.50-3.80. Hab. Eastern Asia, breeding 

 from China and Japan northward. 



M. melanope Pa!.l. Gray Wagtail.' 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. (Page 532, pi. CXIX., fig. 2.) 



^Species. 



Common Cilvracters. — Adult males in summer: Top of head and hind-neck 

 bluish gray or plumbeous; sides of head similar, but darker, separated from the 

 lighter color above bj' a distinct white superciliary stripe; back, scapulars, rump, 

 and upper tail-covcrts plain olive-green ; wings brownish dusky, the coverts tipped 

 with brownish white or pale brown, and tertials edged with same; tail blackish, the 

 two outer pairs of feathers partlj- white ; chin white ; rest of lower parts 3-cllow, the 

 chest usually more or less clouded with dusky. Adult female: Similar to male, but 

 usually rather duller, the head more brownish gray, the yellow of under parts paler, 

 etc. Adult (?) in winter: Above dull olive-bi'ovvn. including head ; beneath j'ellow- 

 isb buff, the chin white, and chest clouded with dusky, as in summer. Young 

 in first winter : Above dull olive-brown, including head ; sniierciliary stripe pale 

 buff; lower parts chiefly white, the chest, breast, sides, and flanks dull light buff, 

 the first clouded with grayish brown ; wing-coverts tipped, and tertials edged, with 

 dull sulphur-yellow. Young : Above dull olive-brown, the top of head suffused 



> Molnrilln hujem KiTTL.. Kupf. \n%. 1S32, 18, pi. 21, flg. 1. 



« Calnbniet Kwp., NntUrl. S.TSt. 1S29, 3.1. Type, Mnlacitia mclnnnpr Pall. 



* MotacUla melanope P.vi.L., Rcis. Uuss, Rcichs, iii. 1776, App. p. 690. 



