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 Turdidæ; the bill is slender and the feeding habits are Muscicapine.
Genera.
- a1. First primary about one-half the second in length; tail uniform in color. Pratincola (p. [564])
- a2. First primary less than one-third the length of second; tail bicolored, the basal part light 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 (Linnæus).
PIED CHAT.
- Motacilla caprata Linnæus, Syst. Nat. ed. 12 (1766), 1, 335.
- Pratincola caprata Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1879), 4, 195; Hand-List (1903), 4, 173; Oates, Fauna Brit. Ind. Bds. (1890), 2, 59, fig. 24 (head); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 104 (habits); Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 161; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86.
Si-páo, Manila.
Bantayan (McGregor); Bohol (Everett, McGregor); Cebu (Everett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Jagor, Everett, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Schmacker, Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor, Bartsch); Masbate (Bourns & Worcester); Mindoro (Everett); Negros (Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Panay (Steere, Steere Exp.); Siquijor (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino); Ticao (McGregor). Persia, India Peninsula, Burmese provinces, Java, Borneo.