18, 5 McGregor: Birds of Antique Province 549 
Kittacincla superciliaris Bourns and Worcester. 
Cittocincla superciliaris BouRNS and WORCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. 
Sci., Occ. Papers 1 (1894) 23. 
Cittocincla nigrorum GRANT, Ibis (1896) 547 (Negros). 
Kittacincla superciliaris, McGrecor, Philip. Journ. Sci. § D 6 (1911) 
44 (Negros). 
I have already suggested that specimens of Kittacincla from 
Masbate (superciliaris) and from Negros (nigrorum) seemed to 
represent one species. I have before me one male from northern 
Negros, one male from Tibiao, two males from Masbate, and 
six males from Culasi, Panay, and I do not see that these differ 
in any way. The “partially concealed patch of white feathers 
in the middle of the lower back’’ is a variable character; it may 
be absent or may consist of a small white patch on one web of 
one or two feathers. Therefore, I believe that the Kittacincla of 
the central Philippines (Negros, Guimaras, Panay, Masbate, and 
Ticao) is Kittacincla superciliaris. No specimen of this genus 
has been previously recorded from Panay, and none is known 
from Guimaras. 
Kittacincla superciliaris is one of the most distinct species 
discovered by the Menage Expedition. It was described from 
Masbate specimens. In Panay we found it rather common in 
the small forest growing on coral-limestone hills near Culasi; 
but it was very difficult to collect, and each specimen cost a day’s 
patient hunting. On only one day were two specimens secured. 
Only one of our specimens is marked as a female, and this is 
doubtless a mistake as its plumage is not different from that of 
the others. A female from Negros agrees with Grant’s descrip- 
tion of the female. While we were at Culasi this species was 
breeding, and the females were probably on their nests and for 
this reason were not seen. 
This species should be called Visayan shama rather than 
_ Wwhite-eyebrowed shama, as the eyebrow stripe is practically as 
conspicuous in the Luzon species. 
Pratincola caprata (Linnzus). 
This species was noted at Tibiao and at Culasi. 
Orthotomus castaneiceps Walden. 
This cheerful little tailor bird is one of the most abundant 
Species along the coast of Antique Province. From the steamer 
it was heard singing at San José and at Bugasong, and it was a 
noticeable element of the lowland avifauna from Tibiao to Culasi 
and farther north, 
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