560 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
199; wing, 84; tail, 83; culmen, 18.5; tarsus, 23; middle toe with 
claw, 23. Iris and bill black; legs and feet nearly black. Breeding in 
Mindanao in the month of May ge (Pourns and Worcester MS.) 
Genus KITTACINCLA Gould, 1836. 
Bill slender, hind toe with claw longer than bill from nostril; rictal 
bristles small ; feathers about bill and chin with the shafts stiff, produced, 
and slightly recurved; wing pointed; first primary more than one-half 
the second ; rectrices wide and strongly graduated. Colors largely black 
and white. In the type of the genus (Itittacincla tricolor) the tail is 
nearly twice as long as the wing, but in none of the Philippine species 
is the tail so greatly developed. Mittacincla may be distinguished from 
Copsychus by its more slender bill and wider rectrices. 
Species. 
aw’. Wing slightly longer than tail; superciliary stripe white; breast and abdomen 
white. 
b*. Rump and tail-coverts orange-chestnut...........................- luzoniensis (p. 560) 
67. Rump. and tail-coverta blaqke:( fa oo foo ee a ao superciliaris (p. 561) 
a’. Wing decidedly shorter than tail; superciliary stripe wanting; throat, breast, 
and abdomen nearly all, or entirely, black. 
Dee Paah, WAT ULY WQUEG > ke mai oh et rns tae ee ee cen ee a ee nigra (p. 562) , 
agen OF RE) Rc] £270 SEY iemcene ee ROO eae NE SON et espe yas cebuensis (p. 563) 
542. KITTACINCLA LUZONIENSIS (Kittlitz). 
LUZON SHAMA., 
Turdus luzoniensis KirtTLirz, Kupf. der Végel (1832), 7, pl. 11, fig. 2. 
Cittocincla luzoniensis SHARPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 91; Hand- 
List (1903), 4, 162; Grant, Ibis (1895), 447; (1896), 116; Grant and 
WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 239, pl. 6, fig. 4 (egg); WHITEHEAD, Ibis 
(1899), 218 (habits, eggs); OarEes and Retp, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 
4, 156, pl. 7, fig. 15; McGrecor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86. 
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Kittlitz, Méllendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns 
& Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Polillo (Mc- 
Gregor). 
Male.—Head, neck, back, chin, and throat black, the upper parts with _ 
a slight blue gloss; on each side of head from above lores to nape a broad 
superciliary band of white, connected across forehead by a narrow white 
band; rump and tail-coverts orange-chestnut ; breast, abdomen, and cris- 
sum white; flanks washed with orange-buff ; feathers of thighs brown with 
white tips; wings black; some of the primaries narrowly edged with 
white, some of the greater coverts broadly tipped with white; axillars 
and wing-lining white ; rectrices black, the four outer pairs broadly tipped 
with white. Iris and bill black; feet and nails light flesh-color. Length, 
about 180 mm. A male from Bataan Province, Luzon, measures: Wing, 
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