668 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus DENDRONANTHUS Blyth, 1844.* 
The only member of this genus is not greatly different from the 
Motacille, but the tail is sligh®¥ shorter than the wing, being inter- 
mediate in length between the tertials and primaries; the claw of hind- 
toe is short as in Motacilla; under parts white with a black band across 
the chest; upper parts with an olivaceous wash; wing-feathers blackish 
brown; median and greater coverts tipped with white, forming two 
conspicuous wing-bars; primaries and secondaries with white spots on 
outer webs, forming two more bars. Of this genus Oates says: “The 
structure of the tail in this genus is peculiar, inasmuch as the middle 
pair of feathers. is very markedly shorter than the others and of a 
different color.” 
683. DENDRONANTHUS INDICUS (Gmelin). 
FOREST WAGTAIL. 
Motacilla indica GMELIN, Syst. Nat. (1788), 1, 962. 
Iimonidromus indicus SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 532; 
OaTES, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 300, fig. 82 (head). 
Limondromus indicus McGrecor and WorcrestrerR, Hand-List (1906), 101 
(error). 
Balabac (Hverett); Calayan (McGregor). Eastern Siberia, northern China, 
Indian Peninsula; in winter to Ceylon, Andaman Islands, Burmese countries, 
Cochin China, Malay Peninsula, and Java. 
Adult (sezes similar).—Above olive-brown; tail-coverts blackish 
brown; line from base of bill over eyes to nape whitish; line through 
eye brown; cheeks and ear-coverts whitish; under parts white, breast 
tinged with yellow; a broad crescentic band across chest black; behind 
this indications of another band which is broken in the middle; sides, 
flanks, and thighs washed with drab-gray ; wing-feathers mostly blackish 
brown, their tips olive-gray; lesser and median coverts with wide yel- 
lowish white tips, forming two bars; outer webs of primaries and second- 
aries with yellowish white spots, forming two shorter bars; two outer 
pairs of rectrices extensively white; next pair tipped with white; central 
pair olive-gray; the others blackish brown. 
The measurements of the male, as given by Sharpe and changed to 
millimeters, follow: Length, 168; wing, 79; tail, 72; culmen, 14; tarsus, 
22. A female from Calayan Island measures: Wing, 78; tail, 71; 
culmen from base, 15; tarsus, 22. 
The forest wagtail is the rarest representative of its family in the 
Philippines, only two specimens having been taken here. It may be 
recognized at once by the two white wing-bars. 
* Cf. Richmond, Proc. U. 8S. Nat. Mus. Washington (1903), 26, 504. 
