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patch on chest of sooty black, connected laterally with a submalar stripe 

 of the same color along each side of throat; bill, legs, and feet brownish. 

 Western Alaska (coast near mouth of Nushagak River, Norton 

 Sound, Kotzebue Sound, Choris Peninsula, near Point Barrow, etc.) 

 in summer; migrating westward through eastern Asia by an undeter- 

 mined route;" winter residence unknown; more western (nearer) Aleu- 

 tian Islands in late summer. 



Budytes flava (not Motacilla Jlava Linnajus) Baird, Trans. ChicaJa;o Ac. Sci., i, 

 1869, 3, pi. 30, flg. I (St. Michael, Alaska).— D.vll and Bannister, Trans. 

 -Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 277 (St. Michael, Alaska, June 9-Aug.).— 

 Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 114 (Choris Peninsula, Alaska).— 

 Tristram, Ibis, 1871, 231 (St. Michael; crit.).— Finsch, Abh. Brem. Nat. 

 Ver., iii, 1872, 37.— Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 

 1874, 167, pi. 10, fig. 2.— Eidgway, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 38 (St. 

 Michael; abundant, breeding).— Nelson, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 34 

 (St. Michael); vi, 1881, 4 (St. Michael); Cruise of "Corwin," 1881 (1883), 62 

 part (mouths of Yukon, Kotzebue Sound, etc., Alaska). 



Bludytes'] flams Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284. 



Budytes flams Turner, Auk. ii, 1885, 157 (Nearer islands, Aleutian group, late 

 summer visit.). 



Motacilla flava (not of Linnaeus) Adams, Ibis, 1878, 423 (St. Michael, breeding; 

 descr. nest and eggs). 



Budytes flavus leucostriatus (not Budytes leucostriatus Homeyer) Stejneger, Bull. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 128, part (Alaskan specimens).— American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 696, part.— Turner, Contr. 

 Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 179 (St. Michael; mouths of Yukon, mouth of 

 Kuskokwim, and Nushagak; habits). — Nelson, Eep. Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 

 1887, 205, part (St. Michael; St. Matthews, and St. Lawrence islands, 

 Bering sea; habits; descriptions). — Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1900, 

 33 (Point Barrow, Alaska, June, Aug.). 



Bludytes} flams leucostriatus Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 535. 



Genus ANTHUS Beehstein. 



Anthus Bechstein, Gem. Naturg. Deutschl., iii, 1807, 704. (Type, by elimina- 

 tion, A. agwaiicus Bechstein, =Alaudaspinoletta'LmniexiS.) 



Spipola Leach, Syst. Cat. Mam. and Birds, 1816, 21. (Type, Ahinda pratetisis 

 Linnaeus. ) 



Corydalla Vigors, Zool. Journ., ii, 1826, 397. (Type, Anthus richardi Vieillot. ) 



Pipastes Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 33. (Type, Alauda arborea Gmelin, = A. 

 trivialis Linnseus. ) 



Leimonipterab Kaup, Natiirl. Syst., 1829, 39. (Type, Alauda pratensis Linnaeus.) 



Agrodroma Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 241. (Type, Anthus rufescen-s Tem- 

 minck, = Alauda campestris Linnaeus. ) 



OicMops Hodgson, in Gray's Zool. Misc., 1844, 83. (Type C. montKolus Hodgson, 

 = Anthus richardi Vieillot. ) 



aniedium « Sundevall, Ofv. k. Vet.-Ak. Forh. Stockh., 1850 (pub. 1851), 100. 

 (Type, Anthus Undventris Sundevall.) 



« Winter specimens from the Philippine Islands apparently belong to this form; 

 but owing to the fact that no winter specimens undoubtedly belonging to this sub- 

 species are available for comparison their identification is uncertain. 



^Erroneously cited as Leimoniptila in Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 534. 



''Erroneously cited as Cynxdium in Oat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 534. 



