432 PITTID.E. 



g. Whole abdomen scarlet, breast-band blue ; head brownish red ; 

 no bright superciliary stripe. (Erythrojritta.) 



Key to the Section*. 



A. With a slight, if any, black lower margin 



to the blue pectoral band. 



a. Cap uniform reddish brown; no red 



nuchal patch. 



a'. Throat-patch black 23. erythrogastra, p. 432. 



b'. Throat-patch brown. 



( Back greenish 27. rujiventris, p. 434. 



| Back bluish 28. cyanonota, p. 435. 



b. Cap with a blue vertical stripe, and red 



nuchal patch 29. rubrinucha, p. 435. 



B. With a distinct black lower margin to 



the blue pectoral band. 



!With a distinct blue vertical stripe ; 

 throat brownish 30. celebensis, p. 436. 

 Vertical stripe absent or evanescent ; 

 throat black 32. machloti, p. 436. 



23. Pitta erythrogastra. 



Pitta erythrogastra, Temm. PI. Col 212 (1823) ; Less. Tr. cFOrn. 



p. 394 ; Midi. 8f Schl. Verh. Zool. Pitta, p. 18 ; Blyth, Cat. B. 



Mus. A. S. B. p. 157 ; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 213 ; ScUeg. Mus. P.-B. 



Pitta, p. 8 (1863) et p. 12 (1874); Wallace, Ibis, i864, p. 106; 



Wardl. Ramsay, Ibis, 1884, p. 334. 

 Brachyurus erythrogaster, Bp. Consp. i. p. 255 ; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 



pi. xvi. ; id. Ibis, 1870, p. 417. 

 Coloburis erythrogaster, Cab. et Hein. 3fus. Hein. ii. p. 5. 

 Erythropitta erythrogastra, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7 ; Walden, 



Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 187 ; id. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 546, 1878, p. 948, 



et 1879, p. 71 ; Wardl. Ramsay, Tweedd. Mem., App. p. 657. 



Above dull green, slight neck-band and rump blue ; head reddish 

 brown ; wing-feathers black, with a white speculum on the primaries ; 

 secondaries and greater coverts edged with blue; lesser coverts 

 green like the back, with a white spot at the bend of the wing ; 

 tail blackish, edged with blue : beneath, chin brown, passing into 

 a large black guttural patch, in the centre of which the feathers 

 are white at the base : pectoral band blue ; abdomen crimson ; bill 

 black ; feet brown : whole length 6-4 inches, wing 3*9, tail 1"4. 

 Female similar. 



Hub. Philippine Islands. 



a. Ad. ; b. Jr. st. Philippine Islands (Cuming). Purchased. 



c. c? ad. sk. Zamboanga, Philippines. ' Challenger ' Exp. 



d. $ ad. sk. Zamboanga, Philippines. H. Everett [C.]. 



* Species 24, 25, 26, and 31, of which I have not been able to examine 

 specimens, are not included in the Key. 



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