420 



b'"' Breast deep ochraceous, crown 



black 13. vigorsi, p. 426. 



b. Throat black. 



c'. Smaller : centre of crown black. 



c". Superciliaries broad, brown 14. concinna, p. 426. 



d". Superciliaries narrow, yellowish. 



j Bill thinner 15. irena, p. 427. 



| Bill thicker 16. crassirostris, p. 427. 



d'. Larger: crown deep brown, with a 



black mesial stripe 17. slrepita?is, p. 428. 



7. Pitta cyanoptera. 



Merle des Moluques, Daub. PL Enl. 257 (?). 



Tardus moluccensis, P. L. S. Mutt. Nafursyst., SuppL p. 144 (1776). 

 Tardus macrourus fasciatus, Bodd. Table d. PL Enl. p. 16 (1783). 

 Corvus brachyurus, var. S. madagascariensis, Gm. S. N. i. p. 376 



(1788). 

 Myiothera brachyura, Baffi. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 300 Q822). 

 Pitta cyanoptera, Temm. PL Col. 218 (1823) ; Vig. Mem. Raffl. 

 p. 659 (1830) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 394 (1831) ; Mull, et Schl. Verh. 

 Zool. Pitta, pp. 7, 17; G. P. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 213; Low, 

 Sarawak, p. 410 ; Blyth, Cat. Mus. A. S. p. 157 ; Moore, P. Z. S. 

 1854, p. 274 ; Horsf. et Moore, Cat. B. Mm. E.I. C. i. p. 183 ; 

 Mottl. et Dillw. Contr. Nat. Hist. Labuan, p. 22 ; Schlegel, Vog. 

 Ned. Lid. Pitta, pp. 9, 32, pi. 4. fig. 1 (1863) ; id. Mus. de Pays- 

 Bas, Pitta, p. 9 (1863), et p. 15 (1874); Wallace, Ibis, 1864, 

 pp. 105, 110; Walden, P.Z. S. 1866, p. 545; Beavan, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 322 (Moulmein) ; Salvad. Ibis, 1871, p. 248 ; id. Aft. B. A. Sc. 

 Tor. ix. p. 631; id. Ucc. d. Borneo, p. 235; Sharpe, Ibis, 1879, 

 p. 262 (Borneo) ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 88 (Borneo). 

 Coloburis cyanoptera, Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. ii. p. 4. 

 Pitta malaccensis, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xii. p. 960 (1843). 

 Brachyurus malaccensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 254. 

 Coloburis malaccensis, Cab. et Hein. 3Ius. Hein. ii. p. 4. 

 Brachyurus cyanopterus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xvi. p. 153 (1847) ; 

 Bp. Consp. i. p. 254 ; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7 ; Elliot, Man. 

 Pitt. pi. iv. 

 Pitta nympha, Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, pp. 412, 414 ; id. P. Z. S. 1863, 



p. 277 (Anioy). 

 Pitta moluccensis, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 374; Oates, Str. Feath. v. 

 p. 149 ; id. B. Brit. Burm. i. p. 415 ; Hume et Dav. Str. Feath. 

 vi. p. 240; Hume, Str. Feath. viii. p. 94; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 509 ; David et Oust. Ois. d. Chine, p. 144 (S. China). 

 Brachyurus moluccensis, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 413 ; Hume, Str. Feath. 

 iii. p. 106; Blyth et Walden, B. Burma, p. 98; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, 

 p. 10 (Borneo). 



Above dark green ; cap brown, with a dark vertical stripe ; sides 

 of head, united on the nape, black ; rump brilliant blue : wings 

 black, crossed by a broad white band which occupies the further 

 half of the primaries : lesser wing-coverts and edges of secondaries 

 bright blue like the rump ; tail black, tipped with blue : beneath 

 deep fawn-colour, throat white, middle of belly and crissum crimson ; 



