PITTA. 3<|] 



Coloration. Male. .Forehead, front and sides of head, and the 

 car-coverts greyish brown, each feather narrowly margined with 

 black; crown, nape, and back of neck black; a broad superciliuin 

 produced back nearly to the end of the black on the neck, as also a 

 broad patch below this line and separated from it by a broad black 

 streak starting from the eye and passing over the ear-coverts, ful- 

 vescent ; chin and upper throat plain fulvesceut ; lower throat and 

 sides of the neck the same, but each feather slightly margined with 

 blackish ; the whole lower plumage fulvous with a tinge of green ; 

 the throat separated from the breast by a broad black collar formed 

 by the bases of certain of the feathers; this collar is not, however, 

 always present ; wings chiefly black, all the exposed portions when 

 closed being blue; back, upper wing-coverts, rump, tail-coverts, 

 and tail bright blue. 



Female. The whole head and nape rufous-grey, closely barred 

 with black ; a broad streak from the eye over the ear-coverts and 

 a broad collar round the back of the neck black; a supercilium 

 reaching to the black collar, widening as it approaches it, and half 

 surrounding the end of the black streak just referred to, plain ful- 

 vous ; upper plumage chestnut ; tail blue ; wiug-coverts and 

 tertiaries chestnut ; primaries and secondaries brown, more or less 

 edged with ruddy ; chin and throat pale grey ; sides of the head 

 and lower throat fulvous-grey, mottled with brownish ; remainder 

 of lower plumage fulvous, with a tinge of green ; a black collar 

 between the throat and breast, but not so conspicuous as in the 

 male. 



Legs and feet bluish fleshy or dark fleshy, tinged with pale 

 plumbeous ; bill black ; inside of the mouth white ; eyelids and 

 gape very dark fleshy ; irides hazel-grey (Davison). 



Length about 11-5; tail 2-5 ; wing 6-2; tarsus 2'4; bill from 

 gape 1*75. 



Distribution. Tenasserim, from the foot of Nwalabo mountain 

 southwards extending down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and 

 .Borneo. 



930. Pitta cyanea. The Blue Pitta. 



Pitta cyanea, Blyth, J. A. 8. B. xii, p. 1003 (1843) ; id. Cat. p. L">7 ; 



Sorsf. 8[ 31. Cat. i, p. 182 ; Hume 8f Dav. S. F. vi, p. 238 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 344 ter ; Sclater, Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 417 ; Gates in Hume's 



N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 282. 

 Brachyurufl cyaneus (Bli/th), Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. xiii ; id. Ibis, 



1870, p. 413 ; Hume, 8. F. iii, p. 107. 

 Eucichla cyanea (Blyth), Gates, B. B. i, p. 419; Saloadori, Ann. 



Mus. Civ. (2) v, p. 575. 



Coloration. Male. The lores and a broad streak from the eye 

 over the ear-coverts to the nape black ; forehead and crown 

 greenish grey, changing to red, and giving place entirely to red on 

 the nape, where the feathers are long and form a crest ; a black 

 streak from the bill, over the centre of the crown, to the nape ; the 

 whole upper plumage and tail blue ; quills of the wing brown, each 

 with a white patch at the base ; cheeks and ear-coverts fulvous; below 



