346 Mr. H. Seebohm on the Ornithology of Siberia. 
collection^ obtained tbrougb Schliiter of Halle_, dated 14th 
Aprils 1876_, from the Gulf of Abrek, in the Sea of Japan, 
labelled Motacilla ocularis ^ . The head, neck, and back 
are black, gradually fading into grey on the rump, which 
becomes black again on the upper tail-coverts. The throat, 
breast, and a line through the eye are also black. Forehead 
and cheeks, and a line behind the eye and on the side of the 
neck, white. Shoulders grey. Wing-coverts white. Inner 
secondaries broadly edged with white on the outside web. 
Primaries and secondaries broadly edged with white near the 
base of the inner web. 
This bird is undoubtedly the Motacilla alba, var. lugens, of 
Schrenck, who describes it as common in the Amoor, and 
considers it an intermediate form between M. japonica and 
M. ocularis. There seems to be no alternative but either to 
describe it as a new species, or to regard it as a hybrid be¬ 
tween the two species just named. I have preferred the 
former course as the least evil of the two. From M. ocularis 
it may at once be distinguished by its black back, and from 
M. japonica by its grey secondaries. 
In DresseFs collection is a skin of this bird from Japan, a 
male, collected by Whitely, 17th April, 1865; and I have a 
skin collected by Wossnessensky on the 23rd of April, 1845, 
upon Oorogan Island,^^ possibly either one of the Kurile 
or one of the Aleutian Isles. 
Motacilla alboides, Hodgs. 
Motacilla alboides, As. Res. xix. p. 191 (1836). 
Motacilla leucopsis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 78. 
Motacilla luzoniensis, auctt. nec Scop. 
Motacilla alba, y 2 .r^paradoxa, Schrenck, Reis. u. Forsch. im 
Amur-Lande, i. p. 341 (i860). 
Motacilla felix, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 121. 
There are five species of white Wagtails found in India. 
Two of these are resident species, M. maderaspatana, hereafter 
alluded to, and M. hodgsoni, which may be described as a 
black-backed M. per sonata. Of the remaining three we have 
already disposed of the breeding-places of two, M. personata 
