2. pitta. 429 



d. Ad. sk. Moreton Bay (Strange), Gould Coll. 



e. Ad. sk. Cape York. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 f-h. Ad. ; I. Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Jr. sk. 



m. Ad. sk. Australia. Capt. Stanley [PJ. 



n-p. Ad. sk. North Australia. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. Subsp. simillima. 



a. Ad. sk. Cape York. Gould Coll. (Type 



of P. simillima.) 



b, c. Ad. ; d. Cape York. Gould Coll. 

 Jr. sk. 



e,f. Ad.sk. Port Albany. Purchased. 



a. Ad. sk. West Island, Torres Straits. Voy. H.M.S. < Alert.' 



h. Jr. sk. Somerset, Cape York (Cockerell). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



i. Jr. sk. Somerset, Cape York. Tweeddale Coll. 



f. Whole abdomen scarlet ; bright superciliary stripe pale blue : 

 sexes similar. (Phcenicocichla.) 



Key to the Section. 



A. Without a blue breast-band. 



a. Crown brown or black. 



I Back brown 18. venusta, p. 429. 



I Back purplish black 19. ussheri, p. 430. 



b. Crown scarlet. 



j Black front broad 20. granatina, p. 430. 



| Black front narrow 21. coccinea, p. 431. 



B. With a blue breast-band 22. arcuata, p. 431. 



18. Pitta venusta. 



Pitta venusta, Hull. Tijdschr. v. Nat. Ges. ii. p. 348, pi. 9. fig. 4 

 (1835) ; Temm. PL Col. 590 (1836) ; Mull. $ Schleg. Verh. Zool. 

 Pitta, pp. 6, 15 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 213 ; Schleg. Yog. Ned. Ind. 

 Pitta, pp. 21, 36, pi. v. figs. 4, 5 ; id. Mus. P.-B. Pitta, p. 13 

 (1863) et p. 17 (1874) ; Wallace, Ibis, 1864, p. 107 ; Sahad, Ucc. 

 Borneo, p. 241 ; Nicholson, Ibis, 1883, p. 254 (Sumatra). 



Brachyurus venustus, Bp. C'onsp. i. p. 255 ; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. xiv. : 

 id. Ibis, 1870, p. 416. 



Erythropitta venusta, Bp. Ccnsp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7. 



Above brown ; head rather darker, with a narrow superciliary 

 stripe of pale blue behind the eye ; wings and tail brown, greater 

 wing-coverts slightly edged with blue : beneath, throat and breast 

 brown like the back ; abdomen dull scarlet ; bill black : feet dark 

 brown : whole length 6-5 inches, wing 3*5, tail 2. 



Hah. Sumatra and Borneo. 



a. Ad. st. Java (?). Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Sumatra. Gould Coll. 



