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minutest particulars with the descriptions which I have been able to 
consult), the synonymy of the species would be as follows: 
MOTACILLA OCULARIS Swinhoe. 
SWINHOE’S WAGTAIL. 
1811 (?). Motacilla albeola (supposed variety from Kamtschatka and 
Kuriles) PALLAS, Zoog. Rosso-As. i, 507. 
1832. “‘Motacilla lugens PALL.” KiTTLitz, Kupf. Nat. Vég. 16, pl. 21, 
fig. 1 (nec TEMM. et SCHLEG., 1847). 
1850. ‘Motacilla lugens ILLIG.” BONAP. Consp. i, 250. 
1851. Motacilla alba LINN., var. lugens ILu., Midd. Sibir. Reise, ii, 166 
(nec Ill., nec Temm.). 
1860. “‘Motacilla alba, var. lugens ILLIG.,” von SCHRENCK, Amur-Lande, 
i, 338. 
1863. Motacilla ocularis SWINHOE, Ibis, Jan., 1860, 55 (Amoy, in win- 
ter); P. Z. S., 1863, 275 (Kamtschatka and E. Siberia to 
China and Formosa).—SEEBOHM, Ibis, 1878, 345 ; 1883, 92.— 
Ripew. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 4, 1882, 414 (Lower Cal., 
accidental). 
1871. Motacilla baicalensis var. temporalis Swinu., P. Z. S., 1871, 363. 
1878. Motacilla amurensis SEEBOHM, Ibis, 1878, 345, pl. 9; 1883, 91, 92. 
1882. ‘‘Motacilla camtschatica PALL.” TACZAN., Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 
1882, 388. . 
(2?) 1883. Motacilla blakistont SEEBOHM, Ibis, Jan., 1883, 91 (Kurile 
Islands, South Yesso and Askold; coast of China in winter). 
Adult 3 in summer (Nos. 88986, Bering I., May 11, and 89146, Petro- 
paulovski, June 27, 1882, L. Stejneger): Posterior half of crown, with 
occiput, glossy blue-back; back, scapulars, and upper tail-coverts, duller 
black, the rump mixed black and plumbeous-gray; lesser wing-coverts, 
uniform ash-gray. Forehead, anterior half of crown, and broad super- 
ciliary stripe, pure white; beneath this, a distinct black line, confluent 
with the black of the occiput, and extending thence forward along upper 
edge of auriculars to the eye, and from the latter across lores to the bill, 
but loral stripe rather indistinct anteriorly; side of head below this 
black line, pure white; chin also white, but more or less mixed with 
blackish; throat and jugulum, uniform blue-back, with a strongly con- 
vex posterior outline; rest of lower parts, pure white, but tinged later- 
ally with bluish gray. Lateralupper tail-coverts with outer webs very 
broadly edged with white; middle rectrices black, the outer webs dis- 
tinctly edged with pure white (almost worn off in No. 89146); next 
three rectrices, on each side, uniform brownish black; two outer rec- 
trices (on each side) pure white, the inner web of the first with or with- 
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