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i82 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vol. VII,
Kittacincla macrurus macrurus, Hartert, Nov. Zool.
ix, p. 572 (1902); Robinson, Ibis 1915, p. 753.
Kittacincla macrurus tricolor {part.) Gyldenstolpc, p. 50.
a-b. 2 3 ad. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi,
8-gth December 1916. [Nos. 3608, 3615.]
c-h. 5 3,i ?. Telok Wau, Terutau, igth-28th
December 1916. [Nos. 3665-6, 3686, 36g5,
3757. 3782.]
i-j. 2 ? ad. W. side Pulau Telibun, Trang, S.W.
Siam. 2nd~3rd January 1917. [Nos. 3812,
3^23.}
k. 1 (J ad. Koh Muk, Pulau Muntia, Trang, S.W.
Siam. 5th January 1917. [No. 3853.]
" Iris hazel, bill black, feet fleshy white."
Hartert (loc. cit.) has dealt exhaustively with the races of
the Shama but it is still somewhat uncertain in what districts
the Indian race. K. in. 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 is
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 differences
are not apparently associated with locality.
Shamas {murai batu 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.
yg. Orthotomus atrigularis (Temm.)
Sharpe, torn. cit. p. 220; Robinson and Kioss, p. 06
Robinson antea, vol. V. pp. 108, 150 (1915).
a. V imm. Pulau Dayang Bunting, Langkawi.
30th November 1907.
b. 3 ad. Pulau Langkawi, iSth February igog.
c-d. 3 ad, v imm. Telok Wau, Terutau, 2gth
December igi6. [Nos. 37g5, 6.]
Distributed throughout the Peninsula but especially
common on the islands.
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