BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 7 



straggler to western Alaska (Attu Island, Aleutian Chain; mouth of 

 Yukon River); acoidental in Lower California (La Paz, 1 specimen, 

 January 9, 1S82). 



Motacilla alba var. I.agevs (not MnlaniUa Ivr/r.ns Kittlitz) Middendorfb', Sibir. 

 Reise, ii, pt. 2, 1853, 166. 



Motacilla ocularis Swinhoe, Ibis, Jan., 1860, .")5 (Amoy, China; coll. R. Swinhoe) ; 

 1863, 94, 309; Proc. Zool. Soc, Lond., 1863, 275; 1870, 129; 1871, 364.— 

 Taczanowski, Journ. furOrn., 1873, 82; 1874, 335; 1875, 252; Bull. Soc. Zool. 

 France, 1876, 150; 1882, 389; Orn. Fauna Yost-Sibir., 1876, 33; Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1887, 603 [S&onl, Corea, Apr.); 1888, 464 (Corea, fall and win- 

 ter). — Prjevalski, in Rowley's Orn. Misc., ii, 1877, 192. — Sbebohm, Ibis, 

 , 1878, 345; 1883, 92; 1884, 39.— David and Oustalet, Ois. Chine, 1878, 299.— 

 Hume and Davison, Stray Feath., 1878, 518.— Hume, Stray Feath., 1879, 

 103, 413.— Scully, Stray Feath., 1879, 312, 315.— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., iv, 1882, 414 (La Paz, Lower California); vi, 1883, 145, part (crit); 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, Oct., 1882, 257 (La Paz).— Bean, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mus., V, 1882, 147 (Plover Bay, Siberia).— Nelson, Cruise "Corwin," 1883, 

 62, pi. not numbered (Plover Bay); Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 205 

 (Plover Bay, etc.).— Belding, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1883, 535 

 (La Paz).— Oates, Birds Brit. Burma, i, 1883, 158.— Dybowski, Bull. Soc. 

 Zool. France, viii, 1883, 360. — Stejneger, Naturen, 1884, 5 (Bering I., Kam- 

 chatka; accidental); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 29, 1885, 284 (do.); Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., X, 1887, 145 (do.). — Blakiston, Amend. List Birds Jap., 

 1884, 54.— (?) TuRNEK, Auk, ii, 1885, 157 (Attu I., Aleutians; accidental); 

 Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 178, pi. 11.— Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., 

 X, 1885, 471, pi. 4, figs. 5, 6. — American Ornithologists' Union, Check 

 List, 1886, no. 695.— Bishop, N. Am. Fauna, no. 19, 1900, 91 (Aphoon, 

 mouth of Yukon R., Alaska, 1 flock, Aug. 28). 



[Motacilla'] ocularis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 246, no. 3576 (excl. syn. ). 



M\_otadlla'\ ocularis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284. — Ridgway', 

 Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 533. 



Motacilla alba . . subsp. ocularis Palmen, Vega-Exp., 1887, 267 (Tschuktsch- 

 halfon, n. e. Siberia, June 21) . 



Motacilla baicalensis var. temporalis Swinhoe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1871, 363. 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. 

 Budyies Cuvier, Regne Anim., i, 1817, 371. (Type, Motacilla flava Linnasus. ) 



Motacillidse with yellow under parts, but with the hind claw longer 

 than its digit, slender and slightly arched; otherwise essentially as in 

 MotadUa, but with tail relatively shorter and tarsus longer (the former 

 decidedly shorter than the wing, the latter nearly twice to more than 

 twice as long as exposed culmen), and tip of wing usually more 

 pointed, with outermost (ninth) primary longest or at least decidedly 

 longer than the sixth, which is abruptly longer than the fifth. 



Coloration. — Under parts yellow, without black on throat or chest; 

 back oliye-green; or if graj' or black the whole head yellow. 



Nidification. — Nest on ground, usually concealed by tufts of grass, 

 open above, bulky, composed of grasses, mosses, rootlets, etc., lined 

 with softer materials; eggs whitish or pale bluish, freckled, mottled, or 

 speckled with brown. * 



Range. — Palsearctic Region. 



