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BIRDS OF BEITISH BURMAH. 
therefore advisable to keep tliem distinct^ especially as their geographical 
distribution is pretty well defined. 
The Malayan Magpie-Robin is foimd in the extreme south of Tenasserim, 
where it is associated with the preceding species. 
It extends into Siam and down the Malay peninsula^ and is found in the 
islands of Sumatra^ Java and Borneo, in which latter island C. pluto (a 
species with the whole of the under wing-coverts black) is also found. 
Genus CITTOCINCLA, Gould. 
21. CITTOCmCLA MACRURA. 
THE SHAMA. 
Turdus macrourus, 6^m. Spst. Nat. i. p. 820. Kittacincla * macroura, Jerd. B. 
Ind. ii. p. 116 j Wald. Ibis, 1871, p. 175; BL B. Burm. p. 100; Dav. et Oust 
Ois. Chine, p. 175 ; Tweedd. Ibis, 1877, p. 309 ; Legge, Bii^ds Ceylon, p. 437. 
Cercotrichas macrurus, Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 306 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 134 ; 
Oates, S. F. v. p. 157 ; Hume ^ Dav. S. F. vi. p. 333 ; Hume, S. F. viii. p. 96 ; 
Bingham, S. F. ix. p. 184 ; Sharpe, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1882, ser. 6, vol. x. p. 48. 
Description. — Male. Head, neck, upper breast, back, scapulars, wing- 
coverts and tertiaries glossy black ; rump and upper tail-coverts white ; 
lower breast, abdomen, sides, flanks and under tail-coverts chestnut; 
thighs white ; winglet, primaries, their larger coverts and the secondaries 
blackish brown; the central pair of tail-feathers black, the others black 
with broad white tips. 
female has the black of the male replaced by brown; the quills and 
the larger wing- coverts are edged with ferruginous, and the chestnut of 
the lower parts is duller. 
Bill black ; legs pale flesh-colour ; claws light horn-colour ; mouth 
flesh-colour ; eyelids plumbeous ; iris dark brown. 
Length 11 inches, tail 6, wing 3*7, tarsus 1*1, bill from gape "95. The 
female is smaller, and has the tail an inch shorter. 
Mr. Sharpe (/. c.) has made out a case for calling this bird by Vieillot^s 
name C. tricolor ; but I think that Gmelin^s name, having now for so many 
years been applied to the Indian bird, should be retained. 
The Shama is spread abundantly over the whole of British Burmah and 
Karennee wherever there is thick jungle. 
To the south it extends down the Malay peninsula, and is found in the 
* This name is variously spelt Kittacincla, Cittacincla, Cittocincla, by the authors 
quoted. 
