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129. MOTACILLA CINEREA CASPICA (S. G. Gmelin) 



Parus caspicus S. G. Gmelin, Reise durch Russland, vol. 3, 1774, p. 104, pi. 20, 

 fig. 2 (Engeli, Caspian Sea). 



Two males and one female, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, May 

 7-26. 



130. BUDYTES THUNBERGI, subspecies? 



Motacilla thunbergi Billberg, Syn. Fauna Scand., vol. 1, pt. 2, Aves, 1828, p. 

 50 (Lapland). 



One male, Lanchow, Kansu, June 24. 



The above specimen is brighter yellow below, less greenish above, 

 and lacks the dusky streaks on the jugulum of B. t. pleceus. It 

 probably belongs to the form left unnamed by Doctor Sushkin,^* 

 but I do not care to name it from a single specimen and the material 

 at hand at present. 



It seems to me Budytes thunbergi is specifically distinct from 

 Budytes flavus^ and that Budytes flavus plexus Thayer and Bangs 

 and Budytes -fiavus alascensis Ridgway are really forms of thun- 

 bergi; such an arrangement would certainly show their relationship 

 better. 



131. BUDYTES CITREOLA CITREOLA (Pallas) 



Motacilla citreola Pallas, Keise Prov. Russ. Reichs, vol. 3, 1776, p. 608 (East- 

 ern Siberia). 



Four males and one female, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, 

 Kansu, May 7-27. 



132. ANTHUS SPINOLETTA BLAKISTONI Swinhoe 



Anthus UaJcistoni Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1863, p. 90 (Yangtze 

 River, 150 miles inland). 



One male, 100 miles south of Lanchow, Kansu, September 15. 



133. ANTHUS ROSEATUS Blyth 

 Anthus roseatus Blyth, Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, vol. 16, 1847, p. 437 (Nepal). 



Two males, 60 and 15 miles northwest of Ninghsia, Kansu, April 

 30 and May 15. 



The specimen taken April 30 is very deeply colored. The fore- 

 neck and chest vinaceous-buff ; the outer margins of the primaries 

 and upper parts with a warbler green wash. These tints seem 

 to fade rather rapidly. 



134. ANTHUS HODGSONI BEREZOWSKII Zarudny 



Anthus maculatus berezotvskii Zarudny, Orn. Monatsb., vol. 18, 1909, p. 41 (S. W. 

 Kansu). 



Two females, 45 miles northwest of Ninghsia, Kansu, May 8-22. 

 These two skins are very light colored with the back sparsely 



^ Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol, 38, no. 1, 1925, p. 37. 



