“An immature female is similar to the above, but the middle of the chin and throat is mostly white, in somewhat marked contrast to the gray chest and sides of the head and neck.” (Grant.)
Two eggs of the Luzon shama collected at Cape Engaño, Luzon, on April 27, 1895, are thus described:
“Shape short ovate. Ground-color pale sea-green, profusely spotted and blotched all over, especially toward the larger end, with reddish brown and with some indistinct lilac under-markings. Measurements 21 mm. by 16 mm.” Two eggs collected in the same locality on May 26, are “rather more oval in shape than the above and more richly marked. Measurements 23 mm. by 16 mm.
“One nest was placed in the hollowed-out stem of a dead palm broken off by the wind, the other in a hollow stump close to the ground; in both cases the nest was composed of moss and dry grass.” (Grant and Whitehead.)
“In Marinduque we shot this species about bamboo clumps in the open. In Luzon we invariably found it in the deep woods. A male from Luzon measures as follows: Wing, 75; tail, 79; culmen, 18; tarsus, 25; middle toe with claw, 22. Bill black; legs, feet, and nails flesh-color.” (Bourns and Worcester MS.)
543. KITTACINCLA SUPERCILIARIS Bourns and Worcester.
WHITE-EYEBROWED SHAMA.
- Cittocincla superciliaris Bourns and Worcester, Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. Occ. Papers (1894), 1, 23; Sharpe, Hand-List (1903) 1, 162; McGregor, Bull. Philippine Mus. (1903), 1, 9; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86.
- Cittocincla nigrorum Grant, Ibis (1896), 547; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 218 (habits); Sharpe, Hand-List (1903), 4, 162; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 86.
Masbate (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Negros (Whitehead, Celestino); Ticao (McGregor).
Male.—General color glossy black; a broad superciliary line from above lores to nape white; breast, abdomen, and crissum white with a faint buff wash on flanks; feathers of thighs brown with white tips; wings black; axillars and wing-lining white; tail black, outer pairs of rectrices with narrow white tips, wanting in one specimen. Iris dark; bill black; legs light flesh-color; nails light brown. Length, 165 mm. A male from Masbate measures: Wing, 84; tail, 73; culmen from base, 20; bill from nostril, 12; tarsus, 28; middle toe with claw, 23. A male from Ticao, wing, 79; tail, 66; culmen from base, 18; bill from nostril, 11; tarsus, 27; middle toe with claw, 22.