2. pitta. 425 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Gould Coll. 

 India Museum. 

 Purchased. 



11. Pitta nympha. 



Pitta nympha, Temm. et Schleg. Faun. Jap., Aves, Suppl. t. A ; Wal- 

 lace, Ibis, 1864, p. 105 ; Swinhoe, P. Z. S. 1873, p. 730. 



Brachyums nympha, Bp. Consp. i. p. 254 ; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. 

 p. 7 ; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. viii. ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 415. 



Pitta oreas, Swinh. Ibis, 1864, p. 428 (Formosa); id. P. Z. S. 1865, 

 p. 678, 1871, p. 375 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 408 ; Gould, B. Asia, 

 v. pi. 65 ; David et Oust. Ois. d. Chine, p. 153. 



Brachyurus oreas, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 415, pi. xiii. fig. 1. 



Above dark green ; crown brown, with a narrow black mesial 

 stripe, and black sides of the head, which unite in the black nape ; 

 broad superciliaries pale yellowish fawn-colour, continued on to the 

 nape ; lesser wing-coverts and rump bright light blue ; remiges 

 black, with a broad white transverse band ; larger coverts and 

 secondaries green like the back : beneath pale greenish buff ; throat 

 white ; middle of abdomen and erissum scarlet ; tail black, with a 

 blue tip ; bill black ; feet pale : whole length 6-5 inches, wing 4*7, 

 tail 1-6. 



Hab. Tsusima Island, Gulf of Corea, N". China, and Formosa. 



Pitta nympha was based by Temm. & Schlegel upon a Japanese 

 drawing. Swinhoe obtained a single specimen as a cage bird at 

 Chefoo, and many specimens have lately been procured by Mr. 

 Jouy in Tsusima Island in the Straits of Corea, from one of which, 

 kindly lent to me by Mr. Jouy, the accompanying description has 

 been taken. 



I cannot separate P. oreas of Formosa from P. nympha. The 

 species is at once recognizable amongst its congeners by the very 

 palo fawn-colour, with a greenish tinge, of the body below. 



a. $ ad. sk. Chefoo, China (Swinhoe). H. Seehohm, Esq. [P.]. 



b. Ad. sk. Formosa (Sivinhoe). H. Seebohm, Esq. (Type 



of P. oreas.) 



12. Pitta bertae. 



Pitta bertaj, Salvad. Att. Ac. Sc. Tor. iii. p. 527 (1868) ; id. Ibis, 

 1871, p. 248; id. Ucc. Bom. p. 237, pi. iii.; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, 

 p. 409 ; Gray, Hand-l. iii. p. 192. 



Pitta oreas, Sharjje, Ibis, 1879, p. 263 (Borneo). 



Similar to P. nympha, but with the chin blackish, and the sides 

 of the crown of a deeper colour. 



Hab. Northern Borneo. 



Mr. Sharpe has united P. berta to P. oreas of Formosa. I cannot 

 separate the latter from P. nympha, and P. bertae comes certainly 



