The white-crowned shama (Copsychus stricklandii) is a medium sized passerine bird in the Old World flycatcher family Muscicapidae.

It is largely similar in appearance to the white-rumped shama subspecies C. m. suavis, which replaces it in southern and western Borneo, and hybridises with it where the ranges meet.

The distinctive Maratua form C. s. barbouri is about 20% longer than the nominate, and has an all-black tail, rather than white outer rectrices.

[1] White-crowned shamas are bred by local aviculturists in Borneo as cage-birds valued for their singing ability.

They continue to be trapped as it is believed that wild-caught young birds are stronger, and better songsters, than those bred in captivity.