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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." (Bourns 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 (Kittacincla tricolor) the tail is 

 nearly twice as long as the wing, but in none of the Philippine species 

 is the tail so greatly developed. Kittacincla may br tlistiiiiruishcd from 

 Copsychm by its more slender bill and wider rectrices. 



Species. 



a 1 . Wing slightly longer than tail; superciliary stripe white; breast and abdomen 

 white. 



b*. Rump and tail-coverts orange-chestnut luzoniensis (p. 560) 



b 2 . Rump and, tail-coverts black superciliaris (p. 561) 



a 2 . Wing decidedly shorter than tail; superciliary stripe \vnnt inr: throat, br- 

 and abdomen nearly all, or entirely, black. 



b 1 . Tail partly white nigra (p. 582) 



b a . Tail all black cebuensis (p. 5<>:', i 



542. KITTACINCLA LUZONIENSIS (Kittlit/). 

 LUZON SHAMA. 



Turdus luzoniensis KITTLITZ, Kupf. der Vogel (1832), 7, pi. 11, fig. 2. 



Cittocincla luzoniensis SHABPE, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 91; Hand- 

 List (1903), 4, 162; GRANT, Ibis (1895), 447; (1896), 116; GRANT and 

 WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 239, pi. 6, fig. 4 (egg); WHITEIIBAD, Ibis 

 (1899), 218 (habits, eggs) ; GATES and REID, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1905), 

 4, 156, pi. 7, fig. 15; McGREGOR and WORCESTER, Hand-List (1906), 86. 



Catanduanes (Whitehead) ; Luzon (Kittlitz, Mollendorff, 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, 



