BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 5 



Adult male. —Length (skins), 179-196 (186.5); wing, 86-90 (87.8); 

 tail, 84^90 (87.5); exposed culmen, 11-13 (12.3); tarsus, 23-26 (24); 

 middle toe, 13-15 (14).« 



^WM^^/««a^(=.— Length (skins), 168-170(169); wing, 80-86 (83); tail, 

 76-82(79); exposed culmen, 12-13 (12.5); tarsus, 23; middle toe, 12-M 

 (13).* 



Palsearctic Region, breeding from British Islands eastward to the 

 Yenesai Valley in Siberia, and from the Arctic coast southward over 

 greater part of Europe to Egypt (?) and to high mountains of Pales- 

 tine, Asia Minor, and Persia; migrating in winter southward to north- 

 ern Africa (as far as Senegal and Canary Islands); accidental in 

 Greenland (Godhavn, two specimens) and Ungava (near Fort Chimo, 

 four specimens, August 29, 1883). ^ 



iMotacilla'] alba Linnjeus, Syst. Nat, ed. 10, i, 1758, 185; ed. 12, i, 1766, 331.— 

 Gmehn, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 960.— Gray, Hand-list, i, ]869, 205, no. 3562. 



Motadlla alba Temminck, Man. d'Ora., i, 1815, 254; ii, 1820, 255; iv, 1835, 

 178.— Naumann, Vog. Deutschl., iii, 1823, 803, pi. 86, figs. 1-3.— Roux, 

 Orn. Prov., 1825, pi. 193.— Wekner, Atlas, Insectivores, 1827, pi. 73.— 

 Gould, Birds Eur., ii, 1837, pi. 143; Birds Gt. Brit., iii, 1863, pi. 2.— 

 MAcGiLLivRAY, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii, 1839, 221. — Keysbrling and Blasihs, 

 Wirb. Eur., 1840, pp. xlix and 174.— Degland, Orn. Eur., i, 1849, 433.— 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 250. — K.TiERBOLLiNG, Danm. Fugle, 1852, 

 pi. 19, fig. 1.— ScHLEGEL, Vog. Nederl., 1854, pis. 100, 101; Dier. Nederl. Vog., 

 1861, pi. 9, figs. 7, 8, 8a.— SuNDEVALL, Sv. Fogl., 1856, pi. 9, figs. 7, 8.— 

 Walker, Ibis, 1860, 166 (Godhavn, Greenland, July). — Eeinhahdt, Ibis, 

 1861, 6 (Godhavn, s. Greenland; 2 specimens). — Newton, in Baring-Gould's" 

 Iceland, 1863, 409; ed. Yarrell's Hist. Brit. Birds, i, 1874, 548; Man. Nat. 

 Hist. Greenl., 1875, 98.— Gray, List Brit. Birds, 1863, 250.— Baird, Review 

 Am. Birds, 1864, 152.— Degland and Gerbb, Orn. Eur., 1867, 383.— 

 Keulemans Onze Vog., i, 1869, 25.— Hehglin, Orn. N. O.-Afr., i, 1869- 

 71, 316; iv, p. Ixxxviii.— Fkitsch, Vog. Eur., 1^70, pi. 21, fig. 14.— 

 Sharps, Cat. Afr. Birds, 1871, 73; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 464, 

 part. — Salvadori, Faun. Ital., Ucc, 1871, 120. — Hakting, Handb. Brit. 

 Birds, 1872, 23.— Shelley, Birds Egypt, 1872, 126.— Baird, Brewer and 

 EiDGW^AY, Hist. N. Am. Birds, i, 1874, 165, pi. 10, fig. 1. — Dresser, Birds 

 Europe, iii, 1875, 233, part, pis. 125, 126.— Giglioli, Icon. Avif. Ital., 1881, 

 pi. 163. — EiDGWAY, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 69. — Coues, Check List, 

 2d ed., 1882, no. 86. — British Ornithologists' Union, List Brit. Birds, 1883, 

 29. — Sbbbohm, Hist. Brit. Birds, iii, 1883, 199. — Tristram, Fauna and Flora 

 Palestine, 1884, 54.— Radde, Orn. Caucas., 1884, 223, pi. 12.— Turner, Proc. 

 IT. S. Nat. Mus., viii, 1885, 236 (near Fort Chimo, Ungava; 4 specimens, 

 Aug. 29, 1883). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886, no. 

 694. 



Mlotadlla'] alba Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1847, 203. — Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 

 12.— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 284.— Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 

 Birds, 1887, 533.^ 



[Motadlla] dnerea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 961 (based on dnereoug Wagtail 

 Latham, Gen. Synop., ii, pt. 2, 397). 



Motadlla albeola Pallas, Zoogr. Eosso-Asi^t., i, 1826, 506, part. 



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a Six specimens. . '' Two specimens. 



