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a. [Budytes flavus flaras. Extralimital.] 



b. Budytes flavus alascSnsis Ridgway. Alaska Yellow Wagtail. [696.] 



Bvdytesflaims alascensis Ridgway, Proo. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, Sept. 30, 

 1903, 105. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds in Arctic Zone in western Alaska from Point Barrow 

 and Kotzebue Sound to Nushagak River; migrates through western Aleutian 

 Islands to eastern Asia. 



Genus ANTHUS Bechstein. 



Anthus Bechstein, Gemein. Naturg. Deutschl., Ill, 1807, 704. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Anthus aquati(MS Bechstein = Alaiuia spinoleUa 

 LiNNiEus (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus ANTHUS. 



Anthus rab6scens (Tunstall). Pipit. [697.] 



Alauda rubescens Tunstall, Om. Britannica, 1771, 2. (Pennsylvania.) 



Range. — Breeds in Arctic Zone from northeastern Siberia, northern 

 Alaska, northern Mackenzie, latitude 68° on west coast of Davis 

 Strait, and latitude 70° on west coast of Greenland south to Great 

 Slave Lake, central Keewatin, northern Quebec, and Newfoundland, 

 and from the Aleutian Islands to Prince William Sound, and on high 

 mountains south to California, Colorado, and New Mexico; winters 

 from southern California and the Ohio and lower Delaware valleys to 

 the Gulf coast and Guatemala; casual in Bermuda; accidental in 

 Helgoland. 



[Anthus pratensis (Linnaeus). Meadow Pipit. [698.] 



Alauda pratensis Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 166. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Breeds over the greater part of Europe; winters in north- 

 em Africa; accidental in Greenland.] 



