PHILEPITTIDAE 



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has a brown back, ana a buttish head, with black cross-bars and 

 collar. This very large form ranges from Tenasserim to Sumatra 

 and Borneo; the smaller F. njanea of Bhutan, liurma, and Siani is 

 somewhat similar, but has a scarlet nape, and bluisli under parts with 

 black bars. F. maxima of Gilolo is glossy black, with bine wing- 

 coverts, a white alar bar, green edges to the secondaries, white 

 lower surface, black chin, and crimson belly. F. (jvanatina of 

 Borneo is purplish-black, with scarlet occiput and nape, blue 

 superciliary stripe, some blue on the wing, pur])lish throat, and 

 scarlet belly. F. haudi of the same island is crin)S(»n above, with 

 blue crown and tail, black nape, and white alar bar ; the lower 

 parts being black, with purple and 1)lue abdomen : the female is 

 dull brown below. F. cyanoptcra, reaching from Burma, and 

 Borneo to South C*hina, is dull green above, witli a dark central 

 stripe and a black margin to the brownish crown ; the l)lack wing- 

 shews a white bar, and azure on the coverts ; the tip of the black 

 tail and the rump are blue ; the lower surface is l)uff, with crimson 

 on the belly. Several species have green under parts, a blue pectoral 

 band, or no blue on the rump and wiugs. F. angolcm^i^i inhabits 

 West Africa, F. nympha Xorth China and Tsu-shima Island, F. iris 

 and F. streintans Australia ; tlie latter reaches New Guinea, where 

 it meets, among other forms, the entirely black Coracopitta.. 

 luguhris, as well as F. maclioti, which extends to New Britain. 



Fam. II. Philepit- ^ 



tidae. — This contains 

 only the two species of 

 Fhilepitta, peculiar to 

 Madagascar, which 

 have bare orbits sur- 

 mounted by a green 

 caruncle in the male, 

 and metatarsi with 

 a regular series of 

 scales behind (taxa- 

 spidean). F. jala is 

 black, with yellow at 

 the bend of the wing ; 

 the female is olive- 

 green with yellow 

 markings below. P. schleyeli is green above and yellow below in 



Fig. 100.- 



-Pliilepitfa Jala. 



