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 be distinguished from Copsychus by its more slender bill and wider rectrices.
Species.
- a1. Wing slightly longer than tail; superciliary stripe white; breast and abdomen white.
- a2. Wing decidedly shorter than tail; superciliary stripe wanting; throat, breast, and abdomen nearly all, or entirely, black.
542. KITTACINCLA LUZONIENSIS (Kittlitz).
LUZON SHAMA.
- Turdus luzoniensis Kittlitz, Kupf. der Vögel (1832), 7, pl. 11, fig. 2.
- Cittocincla luzoniensis Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1883), 7, 91; Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; Grant, Ibis (1895), 447; (1896), 116; Grant and Whitehead, Ibis (1898), 239, pl. 6, fig. 4 (egg); Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 218 (habits, eggs); Oates and Reid, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1905), 4, 156, pl. 7, fig. 15; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86.
Catanduanes (Whitehead); Luzon (Kittlitz, Möllendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor); Marinduque (Steere Exp.); Polillo (McGregor).
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 crissum 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, 82; tail, 82; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 26; middle toe with claw, 23.
Adult female.—“Top of the head, mantle, and upper back olive-brown; lores, sides of the head and neck, and the chest dull gray, the chin and middle of throat being somewhat paler, almost whitish; wings washed and edged on the outer web with brown; the rest of the plumage is very similar to that of the male. Length, 183; wing, 76; tail, 81; tarsus, 27.