i82 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII, 



Kittacincla macrurus macrurus, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 

 ix, p. 572 (1902); Robinson, Ibis 1915, p. 753. 



Kittacincla macrurus tricolor {part.) Gyldenstolpc, p. 50. 

 a-b. 2 3 ad. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi, 

 8-gth December 1916. [Nos. 3608, 3615.] 

 c-h. 5 3,i ?. Telok Wau, Terutau, igth-28th 

 December 1916. [Nos. 3665-6, 3686, 36g5, 

 3757. 3782.] 

 i-j. 2 ? ad. W. side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W. 

 Siam. 2nd~3rd January 1917. [Nos. 3812, 

 3^23.} 

 k. 1 (J ad. Koh Muk, Pulau Muntia, Trang, S.W. 

 Siam. 5th January 1917. [No. 3853.] 

 " Iris hazel, bill black, feet fleshy white." 



Hartert (loc. cit.) has dealt exhaustively with the races of 

 the Shama but it is still somewhat uncertain in what districts 

 the Indian race. K. in. tricolor (Vieill.) meets the Malayan and 

 Indo-Chinese K. m. macrurus (Gm.). 



The F.M.S. Museums possess large series of Shamas from 

 the central and southern parts of the peninsula but the vast 

 majority of the specimens are either fully adult males or 

 immature birds and we are unaccountably deficient in adult 

 females. The adult males vary greatly in the depth of chestnut 

 tint on the undersurface and it is admittedly impossible to 

 separate Indian and Indo-Malayan birds when this sex only is 

 examined, but the female of K. m. tricolor is stated to be very 

 much paler than that of K. m. macrurus. The three females 

 in the list detailed above are decidely paler than two adults 

 from Selangor and it is possible that the birds from North 

 Malay Peninsula and South Siam are intermediate. Among 

 adults differences occur in the colour of the thighs, some having 

 these parts white, with black bases to the feathers and others 

 having them very strongly washed with chestnut but the differ- 

 ences are not apparently associated with locality. 



Shamas {murai batu of the Malays) are very common on 

 most islands off the coast, especially where these are high and 

 rocky but are very much scarcer on the mainland or in flat 

 country. 



yg. Orthotomus atrigularis (Temm.) 



Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 220; Robinson and Kioss, p. 06 ; 

 Robinson antea, vol. V. pp. 108, 150 (1915). 



a. V imm. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi. 



30th November 1907. 



b. 3 ad. Pulau Langkawi, iSth February igog. 

 c-d. 3 ad, v imm. Telok Wau, Terutau, 2gth 



December igi6. [Nos. 37g5, 6.] 



Distributed throughout the Peninsula but especially 

 common on the islands. 



