438 PITTID.S. 



h*. Back bright green, with, a rump-band of light shining blue : 

 head black or chestnut surrounded by black ; crissum scarlet ; 

 sexes similar. (Melanopitta.) 



Key to the Section. 



A. "Whole head and throat black. 



a. Wing-end white with a black tip. 



Smaller 33. atricapilla, p. 438. 



Larger 34. muelleri, p. 439. 



Largest 35. sanghirana, p. 440. 



b. Wing black, with a white speculum : 



I flanks green 36. nova-guinece, p. 440. 



| flanks purple 38. rosenbzrgi, p. 441. 



c. Wing black ; tail green 39. forsteni, p. 442. 



B. Head and nape black ; throat white 40. steerii, p. 442. 



C. Sides of head and throat black ; crown 



chestnut 41. cucullata, p. 442. 



D. Crown, sides of head, and throat black ; sides 



of crown chestnut 42. iris, p. 444. 



33. Pitta atricapilla. 



Merula viridis atricapilla moluccensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 319 (?). 



Merle des Philippines, Daub. PL Enl. 89 ? 



Breve des Philippines, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. iii. p. 412 (?). 



Turdus sordidus, P. L. S. Midler, Natursyst. iSuppl. p. 143, no. 51 



(1776) ? 

 Turdus brevicauda, Bodd. Tabl. d. PL Enl. p. 6 (1783) ? 

 Corvus brachyurus, var. (3. philippensis, Gin. S. N. i. p. 375 (?). 

 Citta melanocephala, Wagl. Syst. Av. Corvus, no. 14 (1827). 

 Pitta atricapilla, Less. fr. cPOrn. p. 394 (1831); id. Compl. d. 

 Bnffon, p. 501 (1848) ; Temm. PL Col. Tab. Meth. p. 16 (1832) ; 

 Gray, Gen. B. i, p. 214 ; Gould, B. Asia, v. pi. 76. 

 Brachyurus atricapillus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 256; Elliot, Mon. Pitt. 



pi. XXV. 

 Melanopitta atricapilla, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7. 

 Coloburis brevicauda, Cab. et Hein. Mas. Hein. ii. p. 5. 

 Melanopitta sordida, Tweedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 949 ; id. Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. ix. pp. 187, 250 ; Wardl. Pamsay, Tweedd. Mem., App. p. 657. 

 Brachyurus sordidus, Sharpe, Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Zool. i. p. 331; 



Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 419 (part.). 

 Pitta sordida, Sharpe, Ibis, 1884, p. 321 (Palawan). 

 Pitta philippensis, Mull. § Schl. Verh. Zool. Pitta, p. 19 ; Schl. Mus. 



P.-B. Pitta, p. 2 (1863), et p. 5 (1874). 

 Pitta macrorhyucha, Gray, Zool. Misc. p. 3 (1831). 

 Pitta leucoptera, Elliot, Proc. Ac. Sc. Phil. 1861, p. 153 (?). 



Above green ; whole head, neck, and throat black ; lesser wing- 

 coverts and broad rump-band bright shining blue ; primaries white, 

 tipped with black ; tail black, slightly tipped with bluish ; abdomen 

 green, with a central patch of black mixed with red ; lower belly 



* I have not seen specimens of P. mafoorana of this section (no. 37), and 

 have consequently not placed it in the Key. 



