rTKRorTOCIIID.K. — DKNUIloCOLArTlD.E. 123 



Pitta strepitans. 



Pitta strepitans, Temminck, PI. Col. pi. 333 (1825) ; 8clater, 

 Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xiv. p. 428 (1888). 



The Noisy Pitta. 



Hah. E. Australia, Torres Straits, and S. New Guinea. 



541. Sternum of female, with slioulder-oinlle. From Clarence 

 Eiver, N. S. Wales {K. P. Ramsay). S. S. 1074. 



Presented hy P. L. Sclater, Ks<j.^ FJi.S. 



Subdivision TKACHEOrHON^. 

 Family PTEROPTOCHID^. 



Genus HYLACTES. 

 King, Proc. Zool. Soc. 1830, p. 15. 



Hylactes megapodius. 



Pteroptochus megapodius, Kittl. Mem. Acad. St. Pet. 1831, p. 182, 



pi. iv. 

 Hylactes megapodius, Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 349 (1890). 



Hah. Central and Northern Chili. 



542. Sternum. S. S. 2660. 



Presented hy A. H. Garwd, Esq., F.E.S. 



Family DENDROCOLAPTID^. 



Genus CINCLODES. 



Gray, List Gen. B. p. 16 (1840). 



Cinclodes nigrifumosus. 



Upucerihia nirjrifumosa, d'Orb. et Lat'r. Syn. Av. ii. p. 23. 

 Cinclodes nigrifumosus, Sclater, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xv. p. 21 (1890). 



The Smoky-black Earth-bird. 

 Hah. S. Peru and N. Chili. 



543. Sternum, with ^houlder-o-irdle. S. S. 17Hi. /'nrrhased. 



