VII PHILEPITTIDAE At 
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 P. cyanea of Bhutan, Burma, and Siam is 
somewhat similar, but has a scarlet nape, and bluish under parts with 
black bars. P. maxima of Gilolo is glossy black, with blue wing- 
coverts, a white alar bar, green edges to the secondaries, white 
lower surface, black chin, and crimson belly. P. granatina of 
Borneo is purplish-black, with scarlet occiput and nape, blue 
superciliary stripe, some blue on the wing, purphsh throat, and 
scarlet belly. P. baudi of the same island is crimson above, with 
blue crown and tail, black nape, and white alar bar; the lower 
parts being black, with purple and blue abdomen: the female is 
dull brown below. LP. cyanoptera, reaching from Burma and 
Borneo to South China, is dull green above, with a dark central 
stripe and a black margin to the brownish crown; the black 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 buff, with crimson 
on the belly. Several species have green under parts, a blue pectoral 
band, or no blue on the rump and wings. P. angolensis inhabits 
West Africa, P. nympha North China and Tsu-shima Island, P. cris 
and P. strepitans Australia; the latter reaches New Guinea, where 
it meets, among other forms, the entirely black Coracopitta 
lugubris, as well as P. mackloti, which extends to New Britain. 
Fam. II. Philepit- 
tidae.— This contains 
only the two species of 
Philepitta, 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). SP. jala is 
black, with yellow at 
the bend of the wing ; 
the female is olive- 
green with yellow 
markings below.  P. schlegeli is green above and yellow below in 
Fic. 100.-—Ph ilepitta jala. 
X =. 
