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Family MOTACILLID-ffi. Wagtails. 



Genus MOTACILLA Linnaeus. 



Motacilla Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 184. Type, by elimination, M. 

 alba Linn. 



[G94.] Motacilla alba Linn. 



White Wagtail. 



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



[B — , C — R 69, C 86.] 



Hab. Northern Europe and Northern Asia, south, in winter, to 

 North Africa and India. Accidental in Greenland. 



[G95.] Motacilla ocularis Swinh. 



Swinhoe's Wagtail. 



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



[B _, C — , R — , C — .] 



Hab. Eastern Asia. Accidental in Lower California. Aleutian 

 Islands ? 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. 

 Budytes Cuv. R^gne An. L 1817, 371. Type, Motacilla flava Linn. 



69G. Budytes flavus leucostriatus (Hom.). 



Siberian Yellow Wagtail. 



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



Budytes Jlavus leucostriatus Stejn. Orn. Expl. Kamtsch. 1S85, 280. 



[B -, C 54, R 70, C 87.] 



Hab. Alaska and Northern Siberia to Chinn, wintering in the 

 Moluccas. 



Genus ANTHXJS Bec hstein. 



Subgenus ANTHUS. 



Artthus Bechst. Gem. Naturg. Deutschl. II L 1807, 704. Type, by 

 elimination, A. aquaticus = Alauda spinoletta Linn. 



