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Motacilla lugens KirrL. (2294) 
It is just as well to state at the outset that this is not the Motacilla 
lugens of Fauna Japonica, which is the next species; or, perhaps, it may 
be better to give the full synonymy of both species, in order not to be 
misunderstood. 
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1784.—Motacilla alba PENNANT, in Cook’s Voy. Pacif., 10, p. 355 (nec LIN.). 
1826.—Motacilla albeola var. PALLAS, Zoogr. Ross. As., 1, p. 507. 
1833.—Motacilla lugens Kirriirz, Kupfertaf., p. 16, pl. xxi, fig. 1 (nec TEMM. & SCHL. )— 
CASSIN, Perry’s Exp. Jap., UU, p. 221 (1856).—Jd., Proc. Acad. Philada., 
1858, p. 193.—SrEBOouM, Ibis, 1878, p. 347 (in part only).—/Jd., B. Jap. 
Emp., p.111 (1890).—STrsneGErR, Orn. Expl. Kamtsch., p. 287 (1885),— 
SHARPE, Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x, p. 474, pl. iv, figs. 1-4 (1885). 
1833.— Motacilla lugubris GLOGER, Abiind. Vég., p. 148 (nee TeMM., 1820).—TEMM., 
Man. d’Orn., 2d ed., 111, p. 175 (part) (1835).—CaBANIS, Mus. Hein., I, p. 12 
(1850). 
1839.— Motacilla leucoptera ViGORS, Vov. Blossom, p. 18 (nec SELYS, 1856),—ZANDER, 
Naumannia, 1851, iv, p. 14. 
1844,.—‘* Motavilla albeola var. camtschatce PALL.,”” SCHLEGEL, Rev. Crit., p. 68. 
1850.—“ Motacilla albeola var. camtschatica PALu.,”’ Bonaparte, Consp. Av., I, p. 250, 
1851.—Motacilla alba lugens ZANDER, Naumannia, 1851, iv, p. 13. 
1863.— Motacilla ocularis SWINHOE, P. Z. §., 1863, p. 275 (part). 
1863.— Motacilla japonica SWINHOK, Ibis, 1869, p. 306,—Id., ibid., 1874, p. 156 (part).— 
WHITELY, Ibis, 1867, p. 198.—BLakisr. & PRYER, Ibis, 1878, p. 236 (part).— 
Tid., Tr. As. Soe. Jap., vii, 1880, p. 220 (part). 
1878.— Motacilla amurensis SEEBOHM, I)is, 1878, p. 345, pl. ix.—Id., ibid., 1883, p. 91.— 
Td., ibid., 1884, p. 39.—BLakisr. & PRyYER, Tr. As. Soc. Jap., x, 1882, p. 
155.—BLAKISTON, Chrysanth., 1882, p. 522.—Id., ibid., 1883, p. 174.—Id., 
Amend. List B. Jap., p. 53 (1884). 
1882.— Motacilla kamtschatica STEJINEGER, Naturen, 1882, p. 182. 
1882.— Motacilla camtschatica TACZANOWSKI, Bull. Soc. Zool. France, 1882, p. 388. 
1883.— Motacilla —————— ? BuakisTon, Chrysanth., 1883, p. 31. 
1883.—Motacilla blakistoni SEEBOHM, Ibis, 1883, p. 91.—/d., ibid., 1884, p. 38.—RIpDGE- 
way, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., v1, 1883, p. 147. 
— .— Motacilla mutabilis BLAKISTON, MSS. and labels. 
It is only during the last few years, and due to the late Capt. Blakis- 
ton’s indefatigable efforts, that the two Japanese species of Wagtails 
have become thoroughly understood, for not only has the nomencla- 
ture been in a most deplorable state of confusion, but the fact that both 
species occur in the same locality, at certain seasons at least, coupled 
with the great variation of the plumages, according to age and season, 
presented some of the most perplexing knots in Japanese ornithology; 
in order to untie them it was necessary for Capt. Blakiston to bring to- 
gether about seventy specimens collected at all seasons. In an interest- 
ing article in the “Chrysanthemum” (1885, p. 31), and in the “‘Amended 
List of the Birds of Japan,” pp. 52-55 (1884), he ably disentangled the 
skein, and recently Mr. R. Bowdler Sharpe (Cat. B. Brit. Mus., x, 1885), 
has added materially to the clearness of the case by giving the black- 
eared species a new name, and by systematically describing and illus- 
trating the different plumages of J. lugens. 
It appears, however, that the differences have not been contrasted in 
such a way as to enable the field ornithologists to distinguish the two 
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