Motacilla alba alba

Motacilla alba alba Linn.

Motacilla alba Linn., Syst. Nat., 10th ed., vol. i, p. 184, Jan. 1758 : Sweden, Europe.

Motacilla cinerea Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. i, pt. ii, p. 961, 1789 : Europe; not Motacilla cinerea Tunstall, 1771, post.

Motacilla albeola Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat., vol. i, p. 506,1811- 27 ; new name for M. alba Linn.

Motacilla albida Forster, Svnopt. Cat. Brit. Birds, p. 13, 1817 ; new name for M. alba Linn.

Motacilla septentrionalis Brehm, Handb. Vogel Deutschl., p. 347, 1831: Northern Germany.

Motacilla sylvestris id., ibid., p. 348 : Germany. Motacilla brachyrhynchos id., ibid.

Motacilla gularis Swainson, Nat. Libr. (Jardine); Birds West Afr., vol. ii, p. 38, 1837: Senegal.

Motacilla brissoni Macgillivray, Man. Brit. Orn., vol. i, p. 160, 1840 ; new name for M. alba Linn.

Motacilla alba nigromaculata Zanda, Naumannia, 1851, pl, 4, p. 13 : Mechlenburg.

Motacilla cervicalis Brehm, Vogelfang, p. 143, 1855: Hungary.

Motacilla fasciata id., ibid.: Galicia; not M. fasciata Bechstein, 1795.

Motacilla major, pratorum Hartert, Vogel Palaark. Fauna, vol. i, p. 302, 1905, ex Brehm, Naumannia, 1850, p. 280, nom. nud.

Motacilla alba minor, cervicalis alticeps, planiceps, and pratorum Hartert, ibid.; ex A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml., p. 7, 1866, noon, nud., as synonyms.