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20. PRATINCOLA MAURA. 



(SIBERIAN STONECHAT.) 



Motacilla maura, Pallas, Reiae Russ. Reichs, ii. p. 708 (1773). 



The Siberian Stonechat differs from its close ally iu Western 

 Europe in having the upper tail-coverts white without any dark 

 streaks, and the axillaries black without any white tips. 



Figures : Gould, Birds of Asia, iv. pi. 34. 



The Siberian Stonechat is a common summer visitor to Yezzo 

 (Whitely, Ibis, 1867, p. 197), and I have an example obtained by 

 Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands. In the Swinhoe collection there is 

 a pair obtained by Captain Blakiston at Hakodadi in April ; and in 

 the Pryer collection there are five examples from Fuji-yama. I have 

 also three examples collected in the latter locality by Mr. Heywood 

 Jones ; and it has been obtained by Mr. Ringer at Nagasaki, where 

 the examples procured by the Siebold Expedition, and recorded as 

 Saxicola rubicola, were probably obtained (Temminck and Schlegel, 

 Fauna Japonica, Aves, p. 58). 



This species breeds in Eastern Europe in the valley of the Petchora 

 and eastwards across Siberia to Kamtschatka. It winters in India, 

 Burma, and South China. 



The habits of the Siberian Stonechat are precisely the same as 

 those of our Common Stonechat; but eggs in the Pryer collection 

 from Japan, said to be those of this species, are not nearly so blue as 

 British or Siberian examples. 



21. RUTICILLA AUROREA. 



(DAURIAN REDSTART.) 



Motacilla aurorea, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 976 (1788). 



The Daurian Redstart has a white patch on the wing, caused by 

 white bases to the secondaries and tertials. The male has a black 

 back and throat, a chestnut breast and rump, and a grey crown and 

 nape. 



Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves, pi. 21 d 

 (male and female) ; David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, pi. 26 (male). 



The Daurian Redstart is a resident on all the Japanese islands, 

 breeding iu the mountains and wintering in the plains, many doubt- 



