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82; tail, 82; ciilmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 26; 

 middle toe with claw, 23. 



Adult female. — "Top of the head, mantle, and upper back olive-brown; 

 lores, sides of the head and neck, and the chest dull gray, the chin and 

 middle of throat being somewhat paler, almost whitisli; wings washed 

 and edged on the outer web with brown ; the rest of the plumage is very 

 similar to that of the male. Length, 183; wing, 76; tail, 81; tarsus, 27. 



"An immature female is similar to the above, but the middle of the 

 chin and throat is mostly white, in somewhat marked contrast to the 

 gray chest and sides of the head and neck." (Grant.) 



Two eggs of the Luzon shama collected at Cape Engano, Luzon, on 

 April 27, 1895, are thus described : 



"Shape short ovate. Ground-color pale sea-green, profusely spotted 

 and blotched all over, especially toward the larger end, with reddish 

 brown and with some indistinct lilac under-markings. Measurements 

 21 mm. by 16 mm." Two eggs collected in the same locality on May 26, 

 are "rather more oval in shape than the above and more richly marked. 

 Measurements 23 mm. by 16 mm. 



"One nest was placed in the hollowed-out stem of a dead palm broken 

 off by the wind, the other in a hollow stump close to the ground ; in 

 both cases the nest was composed of moss and dry grass." {Grant and 

 Whitehead.) 



"In Marinduque we shot this species about bamboo clumps in the open. 

 In Luzon we invariably found it in the deep woods. A male from Luzon 

 measures as follows: Wing, 75; tail, 79; culmen, 18; tarsus, 25; middle 

 toe with claw, 22. Bill black; legs, feet, and nails flesh-color." {Bourns 

 and Worcester MS.) 



543. KITTACINCLA SUPERCI LI ARIS Bourns and Worcester. 

 WHITE-EYEBROWED SHAMA. 



Cittocincla superciliaris Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 23; Suarpe, Hand-List (l'J03) 4, 11J2; 

 McGregor, BulL Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 9; McGregor and Wor- 

 cester, Hand-List (190C), 86. 



Cittocincla nigrorum Grant, Ibis (1896), 547; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 

 218 (habits); Siiarpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-Lisr. (1906), 86. 



Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros {Whitehead, Celestino) ; 

 Ticao ( McGregor ) . 



Male. — General color glossy black; a broad superciliary line from above 

 lores to nape white ; breast, abdomen, and crissum white with a faint buff 

 veash on flanks; feathers of thighs brown with white tips; wings black; 

 a.xillars and wing-lining white; tail black, outer pairs of rectrices with 

 ■iarrow white tips, wanting in one specimen. Iris dark; bill black; legs 



