534 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Yezo in summer; southern Japan, Formosa, and eastern China in 
winter; accidental in Aleutian Islands (Attu; TURNER) ? 
M. lugens (K1TTL.). Kamtschatka Wagtail.! 
a', Lower parts yellow (dull yellowish white in young, but lower tail-coverts always 
yellow), without black on breast ; upper tail-coverts olive-yellow or yellowish 
olive-green ; third tail-feather chiefly white. (Subgenus Calobates Kavp.’) 
Adult male in summer: Above ash-gray, including top and sides of head ; 
lower rump and upper tail-coverts bright yellowish olive-green, or olive- 
yellow ; wings blackish, the tertials broadly edged with whitish ; a white 
superciliary stripe, and a malar stripe of same; chin and throat black ; 
rest of lower parts primrose-yellow, deepening into gamboge on under 
tail-coverts. Adult female in summer: Similar to the male, but chin and 
throat white or pale yellow bordered laterally and posteriorly by black- 
ish or dusky spotting (sometimes with throat more extensively black). 
Adults in winter same as in summer, but throat white. Young in first 
winter: Brownish gray above; superciliary stripe and chest strongly 
tinged with buff; otherwise like adults. Young: Above brownish gray ; 
middle and greater wing-coverts tipped with pale fulvous, buffy, or 
whitish, producing two bands on wing; lower parts dull white, faintly 
shaded with ashy on breast, the lower tail-coverts pale yellow. (In 
younger individuals the superciliary stripe and throat buffy.) Length 
about 7.00, wing 3.20-3.30, tail 3.50-3.80. Hab. Eastern Asia, breeding 
from China and Japan northward. 
M. melanope Paty. Gray Wagtail.$ 
Genus BUDYTES Covizer. (Page 532, pl. CXIX., fig. 2.) 
Species. 
Common Cuaracters.—Adult males in summer: Top of head and hind-neck 
bluish gray or plumbeous; sides of head similar, but darker, separated from the 
lighter color above by a distinct white superciliary stripe; back, scapulars, rump, 
and upper tail-coverts plain olive-green ; wings brownish dusky, the coverts tipped 
with brownish white or pale brown, and tertials edged with same; tail blackish, the 
two outer pairs of feathers partly white; chin white; rest of lower parts yellow, the 
chest usually more or less clouded with dusky. Adult female: Similar to male, but 
usually rather duller, the head more brownish gray, the yellow of under parts paler, 
etc. Adult (2) in winter : Above dull olive-brown, including head; beneath yellow- 
ish buff, the chin white, and chest clouded with dusky, as in summer. Young 
in first winter: Above dull olive-brown, including head; superciliary stripe pale 
buff; lower parts chiefly white, the chest, breast, sides, and flanks dull light buff, 
the first clouded with grayish brown ; wing-coverts tipped, and tertials edged, with 
dull sulphur-yellow. Young: Above dull olive-brown, the top of head suffused 
1 Motacilla lugens Krrrt.., Kupf. Vig. 1832, 16, pl. 21, fig. 1. 
2 Calobates Kavr., Natiirl. Syst. 1829, 33. Type, Motacilla melanope Paut. 
% Motacilla melanope Pauu., Reis. Russ. Reichs, iii. 1776, App. p. 696. 
