(',(',4 MANUAL OF PIIILIl'PINE r.IRDS. 



Family MOTACILLID^. 



Bill slender and nearly straight, a small notch near the subacute tip; 

 nostrils oval and exposed; rictal bristles inconspicuous with but two or 

 three of moderate length; true first (outermost) primary wanting; first, 

 second, and third primaries nearly equal and longest; inner secondaries 

 (tertiais) very long, not much shorter tlian primaries. Tail variable in 

 length, but nearly square at the tip. 



Genera. 



a\ Plumage not streaked ; under parts white with, or without, black on throat and 

 chest; tail longer and extending far beyond the toes. 

 ¥. Claw of hind toe not longer than the toe itself. 



c\ Tail longer than wing; upper parts ashy gray Motacilla (p. 664) 



c=. Tail a little shorter than wing; upper parts with an olivaceous wash. 



Dendronanthus (p. 66S) 

 b-. Claw of hind toe much longer than the toe itself; tail nearly as long as 



wing; under parts mostly yellow Budytes (p. GOfi) 



a-. Plumage streaked with blackish brown both above and below; tail much shorter 

 than the longest secondaries Anthus (p. 0G9) 



Genus MOTACILLA Linnaeus, 1758. 



Tail decidedly longer than wing ; rectrices slender, two outermost pairs 



nearly all white ; claw of hind toe not longer than the toe itself. Plumage 



of upper parts largely gray; under parts black and white, or black and 



yellow, never streaked. 



Species. 



a\ Under parts nearly all white; chest and throat more or less black. 



ocularis (p. 664) 

 o^ Under parts nearly all yellow; chin and throat black in summer. 



melanope (p. 065) 



680. MOTACILLA OCULARIS Swinhoe. 



STREAK-EYED WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla ocularis Swiniioe, Ibis (1860), 55; Siiarpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mm. 

 (1885), 10, 471, pi. 4, figs. 5 & 6; Gates, Fauna Brit. India Birds 

 (1890), 2, 289; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 237 (migi-ation in northern 

 Luzon) ; McGregor and Worcestp:r, Hand-List (1906), 100. 



Balabac (Everett); Calayan (J/cGj-ejror) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon 

 (Everett, Whitehead, Bartsch) ; Palawan (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, White). 

 Aleutian Islands?, northeastern Siberia, Kamchatka, China; Burma in winter; 

 accidental in Lower California. 



Adult summer plumage. — "In normal full summer plumage the fore- 

 head, anterior part of crown, a broad supercilium, cheeks, ear-coverts, 



