2. PTTTA. 423 



10. Pitta brachyura. 



The Short-tailed Pye, Edwards, Glean, hi. p. 242, t. 324. 



Corvus brachyurus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 158 ; Lath. 2nd. Orn. i. p. 166 



(partini) ; Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 394. 

 Pitta brachyura, Boyle, III. Lot. Himal. pi. 7. fig. 3; Gray, III. 



Ind. Zool. ii. pi. 35. fig. 2 ; Jerdon, Madras Journ. x, p. 25 ; 



Kelaart, Prodr. Faun. Zeyl. p. 122 ; Layard, Ann. N. H. ser. 2, 



xii. p. 269 (Ceylon) ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 213 ; Franklin, P. Z. S. 



1830-31, p. 117; Gould, Cent Him. B. pi. 23; Eyton, P. Z. S. 



1839, p. 104 (Malacca) ; Mull, et Schleq. Verh. Pitta, p. 17 ; 



Holdsw. P. Z. S. 1872, p. 445 (Ceylon) ; Legge, Ibis, 1874, p. 18 



(Ceylon) ; Ball, Str. F. vii. p. 213 (Godavery). 

 Citta brachyura, Wagl. Syst. Av. (Corvus). 

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

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

 Pitta bengalensis, Vieill. Enc. Meth. p. 685; Stephens; Gen. Zool. 



xiii. pt. 2, p. 183 ; Horsf. et Moore, Cat. B. Mm. F-I- C. i. p. 184 ; 



Wallace, Ibis, 1864, p. 105 ; Jerdon, B. Ind. i. p. 503 ; id. Ibis, 



1872, p. 133 ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 64 ; id, Mm. Pitt. pi. i. ; 



Lloyd, Ibis, 1873, p. 410 (Kattiawar) ; Schlegel, Mas. P.-B- Pitta, 



p. 15 (1874) ; Gray, Cat. Mamm. Birds Nepaid, p. 40 (1863) ; 



Set. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 696. 

 Brachyurus bengalensis, Bp. Consp. i. p. 254 ; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. 



p. 7 ; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. vi. 

 Pitta brachycerca, Legge, Ibis, 1875, p. 290 (Ceylon). 

 Turdus triostegus, Sparmm. Mm. Carls, pi. 84. 

 Pitta triostegus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. A. S. B. p. 157 ; Adams, P. Z. S. 



1858, p. 489. 

 Le breve de Malacca, Sonnerat, Vory. ii. p. 190. 

 Turdus rnalaccensis, Scop. Eel. Faun, e}- Flor. Ins. ii. p. 95. 

 Pitta rnalaccensis, Schleg. Mus. P.-B. Pitta, p. 12. 

 Citta abdominalis, Wagl. Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. obsc. 15. 

 Citta superciliaris, Wagl. Syst. Av. Corvus, sp. obsc. 17. 

 Turdus coronatus, P. L. S. Mull, Naturs., Suppl, p. 144 (?). 

 Pitta coronata, Hume, Nests S,- Egg.< Ind, B. p. 224 ; Ball, Str. F. 



ii. p. 400 (Chota Nagnur). et v. p. 4.16 (Centr. Ind.) ; Butler 



$ Hume, Str. F.m. p.' 470 (Mt. Aboo) ; Fairbank, Str. F. iv. 



p. 257 (Khandala): Legge, B. Ceylon, p. 687. 

 Brachyurus coronatus, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 414. 



Above green ; vertical band black, bordered on each side by a 

 broad stripe of pale yellowish brown ; narrow superciliaries bufty 

 white, produced on the nape into pale bluish lateral tufts ; sides of 

 head black ; wings black, with a broad white basal band, and with 

 broad white tips to the remiges ; lesser wing-coverts and rump 

 bright light blue ; greater wing-coverts green like the back : 

 beneath deep fawn-colour ; throat white ; middle of belly and 

 erissum scarlet; under wing-coverts black, with a white patch ; 

 under surface of wings black, with a broad white basal band ; bill 

 blackish, with a light culmen : feet yellowish : whole length 

 7'inches, wing 4, tail 1*5. Female similar. 



Hab. Indian peninsula, Ceylon, Assam, Arracan, and Tenasserim. 



