564 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Subfamily SAXICOLIN^. 



The two species representing this subfamily in the Philippines are 

 small ; the upper tail-coverts are white, which is not true of the other 

 Philippine Turdidce; the bill is slender and the feeding habits are 

 Muscicapine. 



Genera. 



a\ First primary aoout one-half the second in length ; tail uniform in color. 



Pratincola (p. 564) 



a-. First primary less than one-third the length of second; tail bicolored, the 



basal part light Saxicola (p. 565) 



Genus PEATINCOLA Koch, 1816. 



Bill stout; rictal bristles strong, equal to or longer than bill from 

 nostril; wing moderate; first primar}' more than one-half second and 

 longer than tarsus; tail moderate in length and rounded. 



546. PRATINCOLA CAPRATA (Linnaeus). 

 PIED CHAT. 



Motacilla caprata Linn^us, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 335. 



Pratincola caprata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 195; Hand- 

 List (1903), 4, 173; Gates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 59, fig. 

 24 (head); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits); Gates and Reid, 

 Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 161; McGregor and Worcesteb, Hand- 

 List (1906), 86. 



Si-pdo, Manila. 



Bantayan {McGregor) ; Bohol {Everett, McGregor) ; Cebu {Everett, Bourns 

 & Worcester, McGregor) ; Lubang {McGregor); Luzon {Jagor, Everett, Miillen- 

 dorff, ^teere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, 

 Bartsch) ; Masbate {Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindoro {Everett) ; Negros {Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d- Worcester, Celestino) ; Panay {Steere, Steere Exp.) ; Siquijor 

 {Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Ticao {McGregor) . Persia, India Peninsula, 

 Burmese provinces, Java, Borneo. 



Adult male. — Most of the plumage glossy black; inner series of 

 secondary-coverts white, forming a conspicuous patch ; rump, upper tail- 

 coverts, and crissum pure white ; some feathers of flanks, lower abdomen, 

 and thighs tipped with white; extreme bases of outer rectrices white. 

 Bill, leg?, and nails black. Length, about 130 mm. Wing, G8; tail, 50; 

 culmen from base, 14 ; bill from nostril, 9 ; tarsus, 30. In winter the 

 male has many feathers of head, back, breast, abdomen, and sides of body 

 fringed with buff. 



Adult female. — In fresh plumage (April) ; upper parts ashy gray 

 with dark brown centers to the feathers; rump and tail-coverts rusty 

 buff; lower parts brown; feathers of chin edged with pale whitish buff; 

 crissum pale whitish buff; remainder of under parts ocherous brown, 

 the feathers with darker centers ; feathers of wing dark brown with lighter 

 margins; rectrices blackish brown. In worn plumage (September) the 



