564 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 



Subfamily SAXICOLIN^E. 



The two species representing this subfamily in the Philippines are 

 small; the upper tail-coverts are white, which is not true of the other 

 Philippine Turdidce; the bill is slender and the feeding habits are 

 Muscicapine. 



Genera. 



a\ First primary aoout 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 light Saxicola (p. 565) 



Genus PKATINCOLA 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 (Linnams). 

 PIED CHAT. 



Motacilla caprata LINNAEUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 335. 



Pratincola caprata SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 195; Hand- 

 List (1903), 4, 173; GATES, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 59, fig. 

 24 (head); WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits); GATES and REID, 

 Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 4, 161; MCGREGOR and WOBCESTEB, Hand- 

 List (1906), 86. 



Si-pdo, Manila. 



Bantayan (McGregor) ; Bohol (Everett, McGregor) ; Ccbu (Everett, Bourns 

 d Worcester, McGregor)-, Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Mollen- 

 dorff, Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns d Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, 

 Bartsch) ; Masbate (-Bourns d Worcester) ; Mindoro (Everett) ; Negros (Steere 

 Exp., Bourns d Worcester, Celestino) ; Panay (titeere, Steere Exp.) ; Siquijor 

 (Bourns d 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. In 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 



