2. PITTA. 427 



black in the centre of the abdomen ; under -wing-coverts black ; 

 bill black ; feet pale brown : whole length 6-3 inches, wing 4, 

 tail 1*4. Female similar. 



Hub. Lombock and Flores. 



The broad brown superciliary stripe from the front to the eye, 

 where it passes into very palo shining blue, distinguishes this 

 species. 



a. tf ad. ; Lombock. A. R, Wallace [C.]. 



b. Ad. sk. 



c, d. Ad. sk. Lombock ( Wallace). Gould Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Lombock ( Wallace). Tweeddale Coll. 



/. Ad. st. Lombock {Wallace). Purchased. 



g. Jr. sk. Flores. Purchased. 



15. Pitta irena. 



Le Merle vert des Moluques, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 316. 



Merle de Bengale, Daub. PL Enl. 258 (?). 



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



Morula (Corvus) brachyurus, Bocld. Table d. PI. Enl. p. 10 (?). 



Pitta coronata, Gray, Hand-l. i. p.-"294. 



Breve irene, Temm. PI. Col. 591 (183(3). 



Pitta irena, Temm. ibid. ; id. Tabl. Meth. p. 16 (1838) ; MM. Verh. 



Ethn. p. 172 ; Mull. # Schl. Verh. Zool. Pitta, pp. 12, 17 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 213 ; Wallace, Ibis, 1861, p. 350, et 1864, p. 100 ; id. 



P. Z. S. 1863, p. 485 (Timor) ; Sah-ad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genoa, xvi. 



p. 185 ; id. Orn. Pap. ii. p. 390. 

 Pitta elegans, Temm. PL Col. text to pi. 591. 

 Brachyurus irena, Bp. Consp. i. p. 254 ; id. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7 ; 



Elliot, Mon. Pitta, pi. xi. ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 416. 

 Pitta brachyura. Gray, Gen. B. p. 213 ; id. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 351 ; 



Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. iii. p. 189 ; id. Voq. Ned. Ind. Pitta, p. 13, 



pi. 3." figs. 2, 3; id. Mus. P.-B. Pitta, p. 1*1 (1863), et p. 14 (1874). 



Above dark green ; crown, sides of the head, and nape black ; 

 superciliaries from front to nape rather narrow 7 , of equal width 

 throughout, pale yellowish ; remiges black, with a white speculum ; 

 secondaries and greater coverts green, like the back ; lesser coverts 

 and rump bright blue ; tail black, tipped with green : beneath 

 fawn-colour ; throat black, projected in the centre on the neck ; 

 centre of belly and crissum scarlet, darker and mixed with black in 

 the middle of the abdomen ; under wing-coverts black ; bill black ; 

 feet pale brown : wholo length 6 - 5 inches, wing 4 - 3, tail 1-5. 



Hub. Timor. 



The narrow, uniformly coloured, light yellow superciliaries are the 

 principal distinctions between this species and P. concinna. 



a. Ad. sk. Timor (v. Lansberg). Leyden Mus. [E.]. 



16. Pitta crassirostris. 



Pitta crassirostris, Wallace, P. Z. S. 1862, pp. 188, 339 ; id. Ibis, 



1864, p. 106. 

 Brachyurus crassirostris, Elliot, Mon. Pitt., Intr. p. 16. 

 Pitta magnirostris, Schley. Ned. Tijdschr. iii. p. 188. 



