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Show 130 MR. R. SWINHOE ON CHINESE WAGTAILS. [Mar. 10, Hainan to Peking ; it also occurs in Formosa. It is resident in all the places that I have observed it, and is probably the M. albeola, var. kamschatica, of Pallas. I have already described it (P. Z. S. I. c ) , and now exhibit a diagram of the head and neck in full breeding- plumage. Motacilla ocularis. 6. M O T A C I L L A JAPONICA, Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1863, p. 17. This Japanese ally of the last, distinguished by its black back and much whiter wing, is only a winter visitant to the coasts of China and Formosa. In P. Z. S. (I. c.) a description will be found of it. I gave it a new specific name (Ibis, 1863, p. 85, note), as both lugens and lugubris had already been applied to the very different western species. I have brought the plate illustrating this bird in the ' Fauna Japonica' to show how much the summer dress of this differs from that of our Chinese M. ocularis. 7. MOTACILLA DUKHUNENSIS, Sykes? In Szechuen, 1100 miles up the Yangtsze, I several times observed a grey-backed Wagtail with a white face, about the size and appearance of the M. alba of Europe. On more than one occasion I saw it feeding full-fledged young. Unfortunately, however, I did not secure a specimen. Tt is more likely to have been the Indian than the European race of this group of Wagtails, and therefore I refer it with a query to the former. This ends our list of Pied Wagtails, which shows a goodly series. |
