440 FITTID.E. 



r. Ad. sk. Banka. Gould Coll. 



s. Ad.; t. $ ad.; Sumatra. A. E. Wallace [C.]. 



m. Jr. sk. 

 v. Ad. sk. Timor (?). Purchased. 



35. Pitta sanghirana. 



Pitta atricapilla sanghirana, Schleyel, Ned. Tijdschr. iii. p. 190 



(1866). 

 Pitta sanghirana, Meyer in Rowley's Orn. Misc.. ii. p. 329, pi. lxv. ; 



Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. is., p. 54; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 411. 



Similar to P. muelleri, but rather larger. 



Hab. Sanghir Islands. 



It would be more logical, perhaps, to unite this and the two 

 preceding species, but I prefer to leave matters as I find them for 

 the present. 



a. Ad. sk. Sanghir Islands. Gould Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Sanghir Islands. R. B. Sharpe, Esq. [P.]. 



c. Ad. sk. Sanghir Islands. Purchased. 



d. cS ad. sk. Sanghir Islands. Tweeddale Coll. 



36. Pitta novae-guineae. 



Pitta atricapilla, Quoy et Gaim. Voy. Astr., Zool. i. p. 258, pi. 8. fig. 3. 

 Pitta novae-guineae, Midi, et Schley. Verh. Zool. Pitta, p. 19 ; Gray, 



Gen. B. i. p. 214; id. P. Z. 8. 1858, p. 175 (Aru), 1859, p. 156, 



186.1, p. 434 (Mysol) ; id. Cat. B. New Gum. p. 26; Scl. Proc. 



Linn. Soc. ii. p. 158 ; Schley. Voq. Ned. Ind. Pitta, p. 7, pi. 2. fig. 4 ; 



id. Mus. P.-B. Pitta, p. 4 (1863), et p. 6 (1874) ; id. Ned. Tijdschr. 



iii. p. 189, et iv. pp. 15, 16 ; Wallace, Ibis, 1864, pp. 102, 105, 106 ; 



UAlbertis, P. Z. S. 1875, p. 531 ; id. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii. 



p. 798 ; Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. vii. p. 777, viii. p. 398, 



ix. p. 37, x. p. 128, xvi. p. 184 ; id. Om. Pap. ii. p. 380 ; Salvad. et 



d'Alb. Ann. Mus. Civ. Genov. xiv. p. 84; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Soc, 



Zool. xiii. p. 315, xiv. p. 687 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. 



iii. p. 277, iv. p. 98 ; Gould, B. Neio Guinea, pt. iv. pi. 1 ; Guillem. 



P. Z. S. 1885, p. 643 (Mysol, Salwatti, Batanta). 

 Brachyurus novae-guineae, Bp. Consp. i. p. 256 ; Wallace, Ann. N H. 



ser. 2, xx. p. 477 ; Rosenb. Nat. Tijdschr. Ned. Ind. xxv. p. 232 ; 



id. J.f. O. 1864, p. 119 ; Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 420. 

 Melanopitta novae-guineae, Bp. Consp. Vol. Anisod. p. 7. 

 Brachyurus (Melanopitta) novae-guineae, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. xxvii. 



Above bright green ; whole head, neck, and throat black ; lesser 

 wing-coverts and narrow rump-band (sometimes almost obsolete) 

 bright silver-blue ; wing-feathers black, with a small white specu- 

 lum ; tail blackish, edged with green ; abdomen dark green, tinged 

 with bluish on the flanks, with a black median patch : lower belly 

 and crissum scarlet ; under wing-coverts black ; bill black ; feet 

 brown : whole length 6 - 5 inches, wing 4, tail 1"5. Female similar. 



Hab. New Guinea, Waigiou, Batanta, Salwatti, Mysol, Gagie, 

 and Aru Islands. 



