182 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. VII, 
Kittacincla macrurus macrurus, Hartert, Nov. Zool. 
IX, p. 572 (1902); Robinson, [bis 1915, p. 753. 
Kittacincla macrurus tricolor (part.) Gyldenstolpe, p. 50- 
a—b, 2 46 ad. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi, 
8-gth December 1916. [Nos. 3608, 3615. ] 
c-h. 5 6,1 %. Telok Wau, Terutau, roth—28th 
December 1916. [Nos. 3665-6, 3686, 3695, 
3757> 3782. 
1-7. 2% ad. W.side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W. 
Siam. 2nd-3rd January 1917. [Nos. 3812, 
3823. ] 
k. 246 ad. Koh Muk, Pulau Muntia, Trang, S.W. 
Siam. 5th January 1917. [No. 3853.] 
“Tris hazel, bill black, feet fleshy white.” 
Hartert (oc. cit.) has dealt exhaustively with the races of 
the Shama but it is still somewhat uncertain in what districts 
the Indian race, K. mm. 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 1s 
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 (murat batw 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. 
99. ORTHOTOMUS ATRIGULARIS (Temm.) 
Sharpe, tom. cit. p. 220; Robinson and Kloss, p. 66; 
Robinson antea, vol. V, pp. 108, 150 (1915). 
a. % imm. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi. 
30th November 1907. 
b. & ad. Pulau Langkawi, 18th February 1909. 
c-d. & ad, ? imm. Telok Wau, Terutau, 29th 
December 1916. [Nos. 3795, 6.] 
Distributed throughout the Peninsula but especially 
common on the islands. 
