288 ruouEEDiNus of this national museum. 



io6. ANTHUS JAPONICUS (Temminck and Schlegel). 226. 



This species luis been collected in the Kiirils by Snow, probably on 

 Ituriip, there being one specimen in the IJ. S. National Museum through 

 Mhikiston. In Seebohni's collection there were three si»eciinens obtained 

 by VVosnessenski in V\\\\) more than (il'ty years ago. 



107. ANTHUS MACULATU3 Hodgson. 225. 



In the II. S. National Mnseiini there is a specimen collected in t!ie 

 Kurds by Captain Snow. The specimen is No. -J80G of JJlakiston's 



collection. 



108. BUDYTES CITREOLUS (Pallas). 230L 



A single s])ecimen of a young Budi/tv.s from Ketoi (No. 9(51330, IJ. S. 

 N. M.; lUakiston, No. liTSl) has been referred to />', t^draiius by Mr. 

 Seebohm,' because it has the head dark olive-green, the eye-stripe 

 yellow, and the ear coverts dark brown. 1 have carefully examined 

 the same specimen aiul have come to quite a dill'erent conclusion. A 

 glance at the bill at on(;e suggests the distin(;tncss of this bird, both 

 Irom /)*. lincoNlritttiis and fiom />'. taivauKs, it beiug excessively narrow 

 and i)ointed, while, as Mr. IJrooks' correctly says, /*. fatvauKu has even 

 a heavier bill than />'. Jhtriis. In shape and size of the bill No. {)(>230 

 agrees exactly with dashniere specimens of I>.eifreoli(s, and the yellow 

 eyebrow only corioboiates the correctness of referring tliis specimen 

 to the latter species; the wash over the gray of the toj) of tlu^ head is 

 distinctly yellowish, the abdomen of the same, delicate pale ciinary 

 yellow as the adult />'. cilrcohts, with the white under tail coverts in 

 marked contrast. 



This identilication is also more siitisfactory inasmuch as it <h)es no 

 violence to the g^'ogiapliiciil distribution of the two species as geneially 

 understood. Pallas says of />. cifrcoius'-^ that he had it e.x regionibus 

 ad Lenam, Camtschatca et iusulis versus Americam sparsis, while 

 Keyserling ;\\h\ Illasins' exi)ressly mention the Kuiils (ostwiirts bis 

 auf die Kurilen).'' />'. lairaniis, on the other haiul, seems to be more 



'Ibis, 1S84, p. 39. 



-ia<*m, 1881, 1). 240. 



'Zoogr., I, i>. 503. 



'Wiilwltli. Eiir()j)U8, I, ]i. xlix. 



"Tlio i;inj;e given by Shiiri>i"(Oiit. U, Brit. Mns., X, p. r)O(i) ia ovidontly too restricted, 

 its proven by IiIh own references. Ho siiys : " From uortlK^iistern Europe to tlie Viilliy 

 of the Yenesiiy"; but nunicrons collectors have ionnd this species breeding and 

 migrating farther east. Thus Kaddo records it as common in Traushaicalia, and 

 Dybowski found it breeding and migrating at the rivcsrs forming the Aninr, east of 

 the Jablonnoi Mountains (.loiirn; f. Oruith., 18(18, p. 331; 1871, p. 335); rr/.cwal.ski 

 found it breeding in soiitlu-astern Mongolia, and migrating in Ordos, llalka, and 

 Kansu (Ivowley's Orn. Misc., II, p. li)3) ; and David records it from Teking and 

 Shanghai (Ois. de la C!hine, p. 301 ). Tiiis bird seems to be local in its distribution, 

 bt'ing Ibiind in patches over a vast territory, and to travel over vei'y narrow migra- 

 tion routes. 



