374 Viscount Walden on a 



with the Sumatran species, not having had an opportunity of 

 making a comparison. 



Chin, the entire throat, forehead, superciliary stripes, upper 

 tail-coverts and shoulders of the wing bright cobalt blue. A 

 patch of pale rufous on the breast. Flanks very dilute rufous, 

 Lower breast, belly, and under tail-coverts pure white. Lores 

 and under surface of rectrices black. Remainder of plumage rich 

 indigo-blue. Of the same tyipe as Cyo7-nis rubeculoides (Vigors), 

 but much more brilliantly coloured. Mr. Blyth (Ibis, 1865, p. 44) 

 considers Muscicapa elegans-=Phcemcura ruheculoides, Vigors; 

 if this be so, the Bornean Cyornis is a distinct species. I very 

 much question the correctness of Mr. Blyth's identification ; for 

 Temminck describes the Sumatran Cyornis as having the chin 

 and cheeks, along with the forehead and shoulders, of a bright 

 azure-blue, a feature not to be found in the continental species. 



Erythropitta GRANATiNA (Tcmm.), PI. Col. 506, " Ponti- 

 anak, Borneo " (1830) ; Schlegel, Vog. Nederl. Ind. Pitta, p. 35, 

 pi. 5. fig. 3, S , adult, " Banjarmassing ; '' Mus. Pays-Bas, Pitta, 

 p. 5. 



Brachyurus granatinus (Temm.), Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 417, 

 partim, tig. 4. 



"Marup, d, iris brown, April." 



I concur with Mr. Gould in regarding the Bornean bird as 

 specifically distinct from that of Malacca, E. coccinea (Eyton). 

 The following points of diSerence appear to be constant in Ery- 

 thropitta granatina : — The black on the forehead recedes more 

 from the base of the bill and occupies more space, thus dimin- 

 ishing the extent of crimson. The shade of crimson is much 

 darker, being deep cherry-red and not vermilion. The blue 

 stripes on the sides of the head and the blue wing-coverts are 

 distinctly paler ; on the other hand the back is very much darker, 

 and glossed with a totally different shade of purple. The red of 

 the abdominal region and under tail-coverts is conspicuously 

 deeper. 



Melanopitta muelleri (Bp.), Consp. Av. i. p. 256, "Ce- 

 lebes," errore (1850), ex MUll. & Schlegel. 



Pitta atricapilla, Miill. & Schlegel, nee uuct., Verli. Nat. 



