ORDER PASSERES. 289 



[694.] MotaciUa alba Linn. 



White Wagtail. 



MotaciUa alba Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 185. 

 [B— , C— , R69, C86.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Northern Europe and northern Asia, south, in 

 winter, to North Africa and India. Accidental in Greenland. 



[695.] MotaciUa ocularis Swinh. 



Swinhoe's Wagtail. 



MotaciUa ocularis Swinh. Ibis, Jan. i860, 55. 

 [B-, C— R— ,C— .] 

 Geog. Dist. — Eastern Asia. Accidental in Lower California. 

 Aleutian Islands? 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. 



Budytes Cuv. R^gne An. I. 1817, 371. Type, MotaciUa flav a 

 Linn. 



696. Budytes flavus leucostriatus (Hom.). 



Siberian Yellow Wagtail. 



Budytes leucostriatus Homeyer, J. f. O. 1878, 128. 

 Budytes flavus leucostriatus Stejn. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. 1885, 280. 

 [B— , C54, R 70, C87.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Alaska and northern Siberia to China, wintering in 

 the Moluccas. 



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Genus ANTHUS Bechstein. 



Subgenus ANTHUS. 



Anthus Bechst. Gem. Naturg. Deutschl. III. 1807, 704. Type, 

 by elimination, A. aquaticus = Alauda spinoletta Linn. 



697. Anthus pensilvanicus (Lath.). 



American Pipit. 



Alauda pensilvanica Lath. Synop. Suppl. I. 1787, 287. 

 Anthus pensilvanicus Thienem. Rhea, II. 1849, 171. 



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