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and sides of the neck white ; remainder of crown and nape, a streak from 

 the lores through the eye and over the ear-coverts, chin, throat, and 

 upper breast black; remainder of lower plumage white, shaded with 

 gray on the flanks; upper plumage gray, turning to black on the upper 

 tail-coverts ; lesser wing-coverts gray ; median coverts' dark brown, broadly 

 tipped with white ; greater coverts with the outer webs and a considerable 

 portion of the inner white; quills dark brown, edged with white, the 

 later secondaries very broadly so; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers 

 nearly entirely white, the others black." (Oates.) 



Winter plumage. — A female, taken in Calayan Island in October, 

 1903, resembles the adult in summer as described above, but the chin 

 and middle of throat are white, the black patch of the chest being 

 crescentic in shape with its horns extending up the sides of the throat. 

 Iris brown; bill, legs, and nails black. Length, 200; wing, 90; tail, 92; 

 culmen from base, 15; tarsus, 22. 



Young. — A female from Lubang Island, taken in November, 1902, 

 differs from the preceding specimen in having the entire top of head 

 and back drab-gray instead of black and ashy gray ; the dark line through 

 eye drab-gray like the crown; the white forehead and supercilium but 

 faintly indicated by the white bases of the feathers. 



The streak-eyed wagtail is of somewhat rare occurrence in the Phil- 

 ippine Islands ; it is easily distinguished by its black and wliite under 

 parts. 



''A small flock of M. oculniis was oliserved in Palawan in December, 

 1891, and two specimens were obtained. They are both young birds in 

 first winter plumage. A male measures: Length, 178; wing, 90; tail, 

 97 ; culmen, 16.5 ; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 20. A female, length, 

 159 ; wing, 77; tail, 72; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 20." {Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



681. MOTACILLA MELANOPE Pallas. 



GRAY WAGTAIL. 



Motacilla melanope Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs (1776), 3, 696; Shabpe, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 497; Hume, Oates ed. Nests & Eggs 

 Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 207; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 237; McGregob 

 and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 101. 



Tam-ha-yuc-yuc, Ticao, used for Anthus riifulus also; a-na-noc-yod, Siqiiijor; 

 ba-ti-cu-lo, Manila. 



Balabac (Everett) ; Basilan (Steere Exp., Bourns tG Worcester) ; Bohol (Mc- 

 Gregor) ; Cagayan Sulu (Mearns) ; Calamianes (McGregor) ; Calayan (McGregor) ; 

 Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Cebu (Meyer, Everett, McGregor) ; Guimaras (Steere 

 Exp.) ; Leyte (Everett) ; Lubang (McGregor) ; Luzon (Meyer, Bourns cC- M'orcester, 

 Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch) ; Maestre de Campo (McGregor d Wercester) ; 



