2. PITTA. 417 



Pitta gigas, Mull. 8f Schl. Verh. Zool. Pitta, p. 14 ; Temm. PI. Col. 



217 (1823) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 394. 

 Brachyurus davisoni, Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 321. 



Above bright blue ; back of head, nape and neck black ; front, 

 lores, and sides of head whitish ashy ; wings black, more or less 

 edged with blue ; tail blue : beneath pale cinereous, with a strong 

 buffy tinge on the belly which becomes nearly white in the middle ; 

 irregular and half-concealed guttural collar black ; bill blackish ; 

 feet pale brown : whole length 12 inches, wing 6, tail 2-8, tarsi 2-5. 

 Female similar, but back and wing-coverts chestnut-brown, and head 

 buffy greyish, with numerous black cross bands, and a black collar 

 on the back of the neck. 



Hub. Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo. 



Or-c. c? ad. ; d. 2 Bankasoon, Tenasserim ( W. Hume Coll. 



ad. sk. Davison). 



e. $ ad. st. Malacca {Cantor). India Museum. 



/. 2 a d' st. Malacca. Purchased. 



g. Jr. sk. Mn\eicc&{Wardlaiv Ramsay). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. J ad. sk. Malacca. Hume Coll. 



hj- 6 $ ad. sk. Malacca. A. R. Wallace [C.]. 



k. 3 ad.sk. Malacca ( Wallace) . Gould Coll. 



I. 2 ad. sk. Malacca. Gould Coll. 



m. $ ad. sk. Malacca {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



n. d ad. sk. Malacca {Dr. Cantor). India Museum. 



o, p. <5 2 ad. sk. Malacca. Capt. Pinwill [P.], 



q. c? ad. sk. Sumatra {Raffles). India Museum. 



r, s. <$ 2 ad. st, Sumatra {Raffles). Zool. Soc. Coll. 



c. Size moderate ; back blue, duller in female ; beneath cross- 

 banded ; tail rather elongated. {Leucopitta.) 



This is also a peculiar and somewhat isolated form, in many 

 respects approaching Anihocincla. Its tail is rather longer than in 

 most Pittce, but not sufficiently so, in my opinion, to render it 

 advisable to remove it to Euchhla. 



5. Pitta cyanea. 



Pitta cyanea, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 1008 (1843), xvi. p. 153; id. 



Cat. B. Mus. A. S. p. 157 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 213, pi. 55 ; Gould, 



B. Asia, v. pi. 80 ; Horsf. # Moore, Cat. B. Mus. F.I. C. p. 182 ; 



Wallace, Ibis, 1864, p. 108 ; Hume et Dav. Str. F. vi. p. 238 ; Hume, 



Str. F. viii. p. 93 ; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 473. 

 Brachyurus cyaneus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 153; id. B. Brit. 



Burm. p. 98 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 253 ; Elliot, Man. Pitt. pi. xiii. ; 



id. Ibis, 1870, p. 413 ; Hume, Str. F. iii. p. 107. 

 Gigantipitta cyanea, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7. 

 Eucichla cyanea, Oates, B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 419 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. 



Civ. Gen. ser. 2, v. p. 575 (Tenasserim). 

 Pitta gigas, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 961 (jr.). 



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