PITTIDiE. 411 



flammulated all over with pale yellowish ; no caruncle abovo the 

 eye. Young male. Black, all the feathers more or less margined with 

 yellow. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a. § ad. sk. Madagascar. Purchased. 



b, c. S $ ad. ; d. Noce Vola, N. Madagascar Sharpe Coll. 

 3 jr. sk. (Crossleg). 



e. d . ad. ; /. tf Noce Vola, N. Madagascar Purchased. 



jr sk. (Crosski/). 



g. cJ ad. sk. Noce Vola, N. Madagascar Salvin-Goduian Coll. 



(Crossleg). 



h. cJ jr. sk. Ankafana Forest, Betsilao, Rev. W. Deans 



Madagascar. Cowan [C.]. 



2. Philepitta schlegeli. 



Philepitta schlegeli, ScUeg. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 422 ; Grandid. Rev. et 

 Mag. de Zool. 1867, p. 356 ; Schleg. et Pollen, Faun, cle Madagasc. 

 ii. p. 88, pi. xxxii. ; Gray Hand-l. Birds, i. p. 297 ; Hartl. Die 

 Vogel Madagasc. p. 163 ; Milne-Edio. et Grandid. N. H. Madagasc. 

 xii. p. 302, pis. 109. fig. 2 ($ ), 111 (d 1 ). 



Above yellowish olive-green ; head and nape black : beneath 

 bright yellosv ; large fleshy caruncle round the eye bluish green ; 

 bill black; feet pale brown : whole length 5 inches, wing 3, tail 1*6. 

 Female. Above olive-green, with white striations on head : beneath 

 yellowish ; no caruncle round the eye. 



Hah. Madagascar. 



a. c? ad. ; b. c? jr. sk. N.E. Madagascar (Van Dam). Purchased. 



Family VII. PITTIDiE. 



Dr. Cabanis, in the first part of his ' Ornithologische Notizen,' * 

 published in 1847, was the first author to suggest that, judged by its 

 outer conformation, Pitta (aloue among the Asiatic Ant-Thrushes) 

 should be excluded from the Oscinine series, but deferred the 

 positive settlement of the question until the structure of the organs 

 of the voice could be ascertained. This investigation Johannes 

 Miiller, who had expressly alluded to the importance of the point 

 in his great work on the vocal organs of the Passeres, was unablo 

 to undertake for want of specimens. And, although several authors 

 adopted Dr. Cabanis's suggestion and referred the Pittas to the 



* Wiegmann's Arch. xiii. pi. 1. p. 216. 



