A Manual of Philippine Birds

by Richard C. McGregor

Bill slender and nearly straight, a small notch near the subacute tip; nostrils oval and exposed; rictal bristles 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.

• a¹. Plumage not streaked; under parts white with, or without, black on throat and chest; tail longer and extending far beyond the toes.
  • b¹. Claw of hind toe not longer than the toe itself.
    • c¹. Tail longer than wing; upper parts ashy gray Motacilla (p. [664])
    • c². Tail a little shorter than wing; upper parts with an olivaceous wash. Dendronanthus (p. [668])
  • b². Claw of hind toe much longer than the toe itself; tail nearly as long as wing; under parts mostly yellow Budytes (p. [666])
• a². Plumage streaked with blackish brown both above and below; tail much shorter than the longest secondaries Anthus (p. [669])

Genus MOTACILLA Linnæus, 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.

• a¹. Under parts nearly all white; chest and throat more or less black. ocularis (p. [664])
• a². Under parts nearly all yellow; chin and throat black in summer. melanope (p. [665])

680. MOTACILLA OCULARIS Swinhoe.

STREAK-EYED WAGTAIL.

• Motacilla ocularis Swinhoe, Ibis (1860), 55; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1885), 10, 471, pl. 4, figs. 5 & 6; Oates, Fauna Brit. India Birds (1890), 2, 289; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 237 (migration in northern Luzon); McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 100.