KITTACINCLA: 561 
82; tail, 82; culmen 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 whitish; 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 Engafio, 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 lac 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.) ; 
5438. KITTACINCLA SUPERCILIARIS Bourns and Worcester. 
WHITE-EYEBROWED SHAMA, 
Cittocincla superciliaris BoURNS and WoRCESTER, Minnesota Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 23; Suarpe, Hand-List (1903) 4, 162; 
MoGrecor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 9; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 86. 
Cittocincla nigrorum GRANT, Ibis (1896), 547; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 
218 (habits); SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; McGrecor and 
WorcestTER, Hand-List (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 
wash on flanks; feathers of thighs brown with white tips; wings black; 
axillars and wing-lining white; tail black, outer pairs of rectrices with 
aarrow white tips, wanting in one specimen. Iris dark; bill black; legs 
