564 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Subfamily SAXICOLIN 2. 
The two species representing this subfamily in the Philippines are 
small; the upper tail-coverts a@ white, which is not true of the other 
Philippine Turdide; the bill is slender and the feeding habits are 
Muscicapine. 
Genera. 
a‘, First primary about 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. Tight 200: 6s hie ee eo on cca eee Saxicola (p. 565) 
Genus PRATINCOLA Koch, 1816. 
Bill stout; rictal bristles strong, equal to or longer than bill from 
nostril; wing moderate; first primary more than one-half second and 
longer than tarsus; tail moderate in length and rounded. 
546. PRATINCOLA CAPRATA (Linneus). 
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; Oares, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 59, fig. 
24 (head); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits) ; Oates and REID, 
Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 161; McGrercor and Worcester, Hand- 
List (1906), 86. 
Si-pdo, Manila. 
Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (Hverett, McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Bourns 
& Worcester, McGregor); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Méllen- 
dorff, Steere Hap., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, 
Bartsch) ; Masbate (Bourns & Worcester) ; Mindoro (Hverett); Negros (Steere 
Ezxp., Bourns & 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, legs, and nails black. Length, about 130 mm. Wing, 68; tail, 50; 
culmen from base, 14; bill from nostril, 9; tarsus, 20. In winter the 
male has many feathers of head, back, breast, abdomen, and sides of body 
fringed with. buff. 
Adult female—tIn 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 
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