NO. 1141. BIRDS OF TIIK KURIL ISLANDS— STICJNEG ER. 289 



southerly in its distribution, iind, if it is to bo Ibuiid in .Ijipjiiicsc terri- 

 tory outside of Foniiosa, must be lookiMl for in tlie islands nearest to 

 the latter. 



I may aild that in liis Birds of the Jai)anese Empire Seebohin seems 

 to have abandoned his idciiitidcation of the Kuril islands' bird, as 

 B. taivanns. The birds from tlie Kurds, he now says, have bully 

 white (not yellow) eyebrows. This remark is evidently biiscd upon a 

 specimen in the Pryer collection, and Scebolim's identilication of it as 

 beIonj;iiig to the form of ILJlavun occurrinj^' in the (!oinmander ishinds 

 (i. e., leacoHtriatux) imiy be quite correct, but it must be remembered 

 thiit he has not had an ojiportunity to compare it witii the spcM-imcn 

 referred to above, wliich certainly differs from 11. IcKcostriatits, the only 

 species thus tar found in the (Jommander islands. 



log. BUDYTES FLAVUS LEUCOSTRIATUS (Homeyer). 



Aceordinjif t«)Seebohm,' tluM-e is one in tiic I'rycr collecition Irom the 

 Kurils. iSee lemarks under foregoing species. 



no. MOTACILLA MELANOPE Pallas. 230. 



Seebohm notes that this species is probably only a summer visitor to 

 the Kurils, whence he had examples collected by Mr. Snow.- 



III. MOTACILLA LUGENS Kittlitz. 229.I. 



Pallas regarded this species as a constant variety of M. <(lha, and 

 described it— without giving it a formal name, lioweviM- — from s])ec- 

 imens sent him from Kamchatka and the Kurils l)y his friend IJillings.'' 

 1 1 was afterwards observed on lJrn|) by VVosnessenski, wluiie it arrived 

 in 1S45, on April 20 (old style), according to Middendoilf.* Snow also 

 colle(;ted it in various islands, oiu^ of his sp<M;imens being in the U. H. 

 National Museum. As a matter of fact, it appears to breed on all of 

 tiiem. 1 saw it on Miishir Long Mock on August 21i; at Shana, Ituruj), 

 September 4 to (i, and at North Ushishir August 24, 1890. On the 

 latter island I shot two specimens, one of whicii is now in the IJ. S. 

 National Museum, They were molting all over, both (|iiills and small 

 plumage. One which was too badly damaged to be skinned matched 

 exactly No. 0(i2n, IJ.S.N.M., described by me,-' e.\cept that the first 

 two primaiies still belonged to the old plumage. 



MotacUla (jraiulis Sharpie is enumerated by Snow" under the name 

 M.japonica, as oc(;urriiig in the Kurils, without further particulars. 1 

 am not aware that Kuril specimens are recorded. 



'B. .Jap. Kiiij).. p. ll.f->. 



'^Idem, p. lit. 



■'Zoofri-., I, p. not). 



'Lsepipt. RiishI., p. 121. 



f'Pioc. U. S. Niit. MiiH., 1892, XV, No. 901, p. :{()!). 



"Notes Kuril IhI., ji. ;{7. 



Troc. N. M. vol. xxi 1!) 



