358 MOTACILLA BAICALENSIS. M. MELANOPE. 



MOTACILLA BAICALENSIS, Swinhoe. 



[^1847. One. — Dauuria, 1867. From Dr. Dy bo wski, through 

 M. Jules Verreaux, 1868. 



Received under the name of Motacilla lugubris, an obvious misnomer for 

 luff ens, by which epithet Drs. Dybowski and Parrex, in their list of the birds of 

 Darasun (J. f. 0. 1868, p. 334), mention the bird as being very common tliere. 

 Subsequently Dr. TaczanowsM (Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1876, p. 149) has 

 referred this form to the M. baicalensis of Swinhoe (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, 

 p. 363), which Dr. Sharpe regards as a subspecies of M. alba (Cat. B. Br. Mus. 

 X. p. 470).] 



MOTACILLA PERSONATA, Gould. 



[§ 1848. 0/^^.— Kuldja, 20 April, 1887. From Herr Tanore, 

 li 



Said by HH. E.J. Ilomeyer and Tancr^ (Mitth. orn. Ver. Wien, 1883, p. 86) 

 to be the commonest species of pied Wagtail in the Altai.] 



MOTACILLA OCULARIS, Swinhoe. 



[\ 1849. One.—'' Amur," 20 May, 1885. From Herr Tancre, 



1888. 



The late Dr. Taczanowski does not describe the eggs of this form of Wagtail, 

 which has an extensive range in Eastern Asia, and even crosses Bering's Sea to 

 Alaska ; but he states (Faun. Ornithol. de la Sib^rie Orientale, i. p. 367), on 

 Colonel Przewalski's authority, that it breeds throughout Mongolia, avoiding 

 the salt lakes.] 



MOTACILLA MELANOPE, Pallas. 

 GREY WAGTAIL. 



S 1850. Tico. — Northumberland. From Mr. John Hancock, 

 1844. 



