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into the trees if followed. In the Calamianes Islands we found it abun- 

 dantly in bamboo thickets. 



"Four males from Palawan average: Length, 205; wing, 87; tail, 107; 

 culmen, 21; tarsus, 24; middle toe with claw, 22. Two females, length, 

 230; wing, 90; tail, 105; culmen, 20; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 

 22. Iris dark brown to black; legs, feet, and nails bro\\Ti to black; bill 

 black. Called by natives of Palawan 'tam-be-lad-nun'." {Bourne and 

 Worcester MS.) 



545. KITTACINCLA CEBUENSIS Steere. 



CEBU BLACK SHAMA. 



Viitocincla cebuensis Steeke, List Birds and Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 

 20; Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers 

 (1894), 1, 58; Suarpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; McGregor and 

 Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86; McGregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 

 2, sec. A, 307. 

 Cebu {Steere Exp., Bourns cC- Worcester, McGregor). 



Adult — Glossy blue-black ; wings black ; coverts, alula, and some of the 

 secondaries edged with glossy blue-black; axillars and wing-lining 

 similar ; tail black. Two adult males measure : Wing, 90, 95 ; tail, 105.6, 

 99 (imperfect) ; culmen from base, 19; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 27, 

 26; middle toe with claw, 24, 23. 



An immature male from Toledo, Cebu, October 13, differs from the 

 adult as follows : Feathers of crown and nape tipped with dull rusty 

 brown; wings dull seal-brown; each feather of alula and greater coverts 

 with a subterminal spot of ocherous brown; lesser coverts black, fringed 

 with silvery gray; lower parts dull blue-gray, tips of feathers ocherous, 

 becoming more rusty on flanks. 



"An immature female is slaty black above, tail dull black; wing- 

 coverts brown, tipped with distinct spots of rufous-brown, these spots 

 forming two irregular bars ; quills fulvous-brown ; primaries faintly washed 

 on outer webs with rufous-brown; forehead brownish; lores, ring round 

 eye, sides of face and chin light rufous-brown; center of throat and upper 

 breast slaty gray, a few of the feathers still retaining brownish centers; 

 rest of under surface slaty black washed with brown; under tail-coverts 

 black with brown shaft-stripes." {Bourns and Worcester.) 



"Apparently confined to the island of Cebu where it is very rare. In- 

 variably found in the forest and in dense thickets close to the ground. 

 It is both quiet and shy. We never heard it utter a note. 



"Two males from Cebu average: Length, 205; wing, 90; tail, 100; 

 culmen, 20 ; tarsus, 26 ; middle toe with claw, 24. Iris very dark brown ; 

 legs, feet, and nails dark brown, almost black; bill black. Breeding in 

 June." {Bourns and Worcester MS.) 



