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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 brown to black; bill 
black. Called by natives of Palawan ‘tam-be-lad-nun’.” (Bourns and 
Worcester MS.) 
545. KITTACINCLA CEBUENSIS Steere. 
CEBU BLACK SHAMA, 
Cittocincla cebuensis STrEERE, List Birds and Mams. Steere Exped. (1890), 
20; Bourns and WorcrEstrerR, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers 
(1894), 1, 58; SHARPE, Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; McGrrcor and 
Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86; McGrecor, Phil. Jour. Sei. (1907). 
2; sec. As307. 
Cebu (Steere Hxp., Bourns & 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 tmmature 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.) 
