48 Myr. R. B. Sharpe on the correct Name of the Shdmd. 
Of these birds Turdus tricolor and T. macrurus are both 
Shdmds, and have been spoken of as one and the same species. 
Turdus phenicopterus is not a Thrush, but a Cuckoo- 
Shrike, Campophaga phenicea (Lath.). It appears never to 
have been made the type of any absolute genus. Turdus 
macrurus, Lath., was taken by Gould (P. Z. 8. 1836, p. 7) as 
the type of his genus Kettacincla; and T. tricolor, V., has 
always been considered to be a synonym. . 
What Sazxicola leucocampter of the Berlin Museum is I 
have not yet been able to find out. 
It appears to me to be certain that, Gould having taken 
Turdus macrurus out of Boie’s composite genus Cercotrichas, 
and having made it in due form the type of his genus Ketta- 
cincla, it is quite wrong to employ Cercotrichas for the Shaémé. 
With varying fortunes the generic name of Cercotrichas 
was employed until 1870, when its fate appears to me to have 
been definitely settled by Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub, who 
made Gmelin’s Zurdus erythropterus the type of their genus 
Cercotrichas, of which they gave full characters, founding, 
indeed, the genus de novo, and adopting Boie’s name; so that 
the synonymy of the genus would stand 
Cercotrichas, F. & H. 
Cercotrichas, pt., Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 (typo haud indicato). 
Cercotrichas, Finsch & Hartl. Vog. Ost-Afr. p. 249 (1870). Type C. 
erythropterus (Gm.). 
Saxicola leucocampter is probably Thamnolea albiscapulata 
or Th. cinnamometventris, in which case it would be absorbed 
in 1850 into Cabanis’s genus Thamnolea, while no one since 
Boie’s time has associated Turdus phenicopterus, Temm., 
with the Chat-Thrushes. 
The synonymy of the genus Cvttocincla will be as fol- 
lows :— 
Cittocincla, Gould. 
Cercotrichas, pt., Boie, Isis, 1831, p. 542 (typo haud indicato). 
Kittacincla, Gould, P. Z. 8. 1886, p. 7. Type C. tricolor. 
Cittocincla, Sclater, Ibis, 1866, p. 109 (aom. emend.). 
I do not think that the name macrura can be upheld for 
the Indian species of this genus. There are two closely 
allied birds, one of which is found in Southern and Central 
India and Ceylon, the sub-Himalayan region eastwards from 
the Ganges, ranging through the Burmese countries to Siam, 
Cochin China, and Hainan, and down the Malayan peninsula 
to Java. In Sumatra the Shdémé differs in having much less 
black at the base of the outer tail-feather, while in Borneo 
