58 PASSERES. 



less migrating; southwards in autumn (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. 

 As. Soc. Japanj 1882j p. 162). There are nine examples in the 

 Pryer collection from the neighbourhood of Yokohama. In the 

 British Museum is an example from Hakodadi, and Mr. Ringer has 

 sent examples from Nagasaki to the Norwich Museum. 



The Daurian Redstart also breeds in South-east Siberia, East 

 Mongolia, and North China. It winters in Formosa, South China, 

 Hainan, and occasionally in Assam, the Malay Peninsula, Java, and 

 Timor. 



It is generally found in low bushes or tangled thickets, and has a 

 loud piping note (Jouy, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 282) . 



22. TAESIGER CYANURUS. 



(SIBERIAN BLUE-TAIL.) 



Motacilla eyamurvs, Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, ii. p. 709 (1776). 



The male Siberian Blue-tail is blue above, with a white eye-stripe ; 

 and white below with orange-chestnut flanks. The female is olive- 

 brown above with no eye-stripe, and in addition to the orange flanks 

 there is an obscure broad brown band across the breast. 



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

 (male and female) ; David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, pi. 28 (male). 



The Siberian Blue-tail is a summer visitor to Yezzo (Whitely, Ibis, 

 1867, p. 197) ; but in the more southerly islands of Japan it is a 

 resident, breeding on the mountains and wintering in the plains. 

 There are twelve examples in the Pryer collection from Yokohama, 

 and Mr. Ringer has sent skins to the Norwich Museum obtained at 

 Nagasaki (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, p. 161) . 

 There is an example in the Pryer collection from the central group 

 of the Loo-Choo Islands (Seebohm, Ibis, 1887, p. 174), and another 

 in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington from 

 the same locality (Stejneger, Proc. United States Nat. Mus. 1886, 

 p. 646). 



The range of the Siberian Blue-tail extends from the Ural Moun- 

 tains, whence 1 have seen examples in the Moscow Museum, to 

 Kamtschatka. It is a winter visitor to China and Formosa. 



I found this bird in the valley of the Yenesay as far north as the 

 Arctic Circle, and Mr. Jouy describes it as one of the commonest 

 birds in the mountains of Japan during summer, often the only one 



