534 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Yezo in summer ; southern Japan, Formosa, and eastern China in 

 ■winter ; accidental in Aleutian Islands (Attu ; Turner) ? 



M. lugens (Kittl.). Kamtschatka Wagtail. 1 

 a 1 . 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 Kaup. ! ) 

 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. Sab. Eastern Asia, breeding 



from China and Japan northward. 



M. melanope Pall. Gray Wagtail. 3 



Genus BUDYTES Cuvier. (Page 532, pi. CXIX, fig. 2.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — 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 (?) 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 Kittl., Kupf. Vog. 1832, 16, pi. 21, fig. 1. 



2 Calobates Kaitp., Naturl. Syst. 1829, 33. Type, Motacilla melanope Pall. 



3 Motacilla melanope Pall., Reis. Rusa. Reichs, Hi. 1776, App. p. 696. 



