H64 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Family MOTACILLIDZ. 
a 
Bill slender and nearly straight, a small notch near the subacute tip; 
nostrils oval and exposed; rictaBristles 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 
(tertials) very long, not much shorter than 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. 
b'. Claw of hind toe not longer than the toe itself. 
ce’. Tail longer than wing; upper parts ashy gray...............- Motacilla (p. 664) 
ce. Tail a little shorter than wing; upper parts with an olivaceous wash. 
Dendronanthus (p. 668) 
b*. Claw of hind toe much longer than the toe itself; tail nearly as long as 
wing; under parts mostly yellow.................-...... sachoteccepener Budytes (p. 666) 
a’, Plumage streaked with blackish brown both above and below; tail much shorter 
fhan the longest secondaries 20 ooo 20 28a destestenecmmenateoets Anthus (p. 669) 
Genus MOTACILLA Linneus, 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) 
a’, Under parts nearly all yellow; chin and throat black in summer. 
melanope (p. 665) 
680. MOTACILLA OCULARIS Swinhoe. 
STREAK-EYED WAGTAIL. 
Motacilla ocularis SwWINHoE, Ibis (1860), 55; SuARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
(1885), 10, 471, pl. 4, figs. 5 & 6; Oates, Fauna Brit. India Birds 
(1890), 2, 289; WuirEnEaD, Ibis (1899), 237 (migration in northern 
Luzon) ; McGReGor and WorcrEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 100. 
Balabac (Hverett); Calayan (McGregor); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon 
(Everett, Whitehead, Bartsch) ; Palawan (Hverett, 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, 
