PITTA. 3g9 



Key to the Species. 



a. Lower plumage plain fulvous. 

 «'. Tail brown tinged with green 



a'. Nape and hind neck blue p. nmalmsi* n -s«. 



6 , ft ^^^ neck fulvous P. 3£ftU~ 



6. Lower plumage'cro'ss-b^ed. ' <Wmfa ^ * 3<J0 - 



c. Nape red; crown with a black coronal 



band „ 



d'. Nape ferruginous like crown \ no coronal ^ ^ P * 39L 



band 7J . rt 



c Lower plumage withVoiil^briiliai/t crim- ^™^ ? ' P,3 ° 5 - 

 son. 



e'. Breast and abdomen fulvous or buff, 

 c". Under wing-coverts black. 



h"» p-ul r ° m gape t0 fc J p a , b0Llt 1>2 • ' P " Wnoptera, p. 392 



» . BiUfrom gape to tip about 1-6 . . P. ^JhyJhltm 

 (( . I nder wing-coverts black with a 



large patch of white 7> ;„.„ „ 7 . )r .o 



{'■ 2SE t domen a " crims ° u : : '■ '■ '• '■ p - «« p' ^ 



«/ . -Mreast and abdomen green p „„ ,„;/ / ^ on* 



Fig. 107.— Head of P. nepalenm. 



927. Pitta nepalensis. Z%e Blue-naped Pitta. 

 Paludicolanipalensis, JZocfys. J! ./. & 5. vi p 103 (1837) 

 Pitta mpalensis (//or/yv.), ///y/,. Qrf. p. L56; Hbii/! * " 1/ <?** i 



p. 82; Sclater Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 411; Oate i« HWs .\ . fr j? 



2nd ed. u, p. 281. * 



Brachyurusnipalensis (7/ «>.), Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. iii ; /,/. //,,<, 1870, 



Hydrornia mpalensia (Sodgs.), Jerd. B. 1. i, p. 502 ; Hume, N. 8c E 

 p. 224; Oatee, & P. ui, p. 337 ; ft />'. Z?. i, p. 412 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. o44. 



7V«» Large Nepal Ground-Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and anterior half of crown rich 

 fulvous, shading off into blue on the nape and hind neck: upper 

 plumage greenish brown ; tail brown tinged with green • wings 



