4 PITTA ANGOLENSIS. 



— a character not known to occur in any other Passerine bird. Sternum 

 with one extremely deep notch on each side. Wing of ten primaries, first 

 reaching nearly to the tip of the wing. Tail of twelve feathers, very short. 

 Tarsus elongated, the anterior covering entire and smooth. 

 Sexes similar in plumage in the single Ethiopian species. 



Pitta angolensis. 



Pitta angolensis, Vieill., Reichen. and Liihder, J. f. 0. 1873, p. 214 

 Accra; Reichen. J. f. O. 1875, p. 20 Camaroons ; Garrod, P. Z. S. 

 1876, p. 513, pi. 53, figs. 1, 2, 3; Sharpe and Bouvier, Bull. 

 S. Z. France, 1876, p. 45 Landana ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1877, p. 21 

 Loango; Biittik. Notes Leyd. Mus. 1885, p. 175; 1888, p. 75; 

 1889, p. 122 Liberia; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1886, p. 396 Upemba ; 

 Matsch. J. f. O. 1887, p. 152 Lufua B. ; Sclat. Cat. B. M. xiv. 

 p. 422 (1888) Wassaiv ; Reichen. J. f. 0. 1890, p. 117 Camaroons ; 

 Whitehead, Ibis, 1893, p. 496 ; Elliot, Monogr. Pitt. 2nd Ed. pi. — 

 (1893); Reichen. J. f. O. 1896, p. 96 Togoland ; Neumann, t. c. 

 p. 250, Usagara; Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 1 (1896) ; Reichen. .1. f. O. 

 1897, p. 25 Togoland. 



Adult Male. Crown and sides of head black, with a broad pale brown 

 band from forehead to nape, fading beneath into a white eyebrow ; mantle 

 olive-shaded green ; wings and tail black, the former washed with olive, 

 and with broad glossy whitish blue ends to the coverts ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts pale glossy verditer blue. Throat white, partially washed with 

 carmine ; chest buff washed on the flanks with olive ; abdomen and under 

 tail-coverts deep carmine red. "Bill horny brown, legs flesh colour, iris 

 dark brown" (Falkenstein). Total length 7 inches, culmen 0-8, wing 4-3, 

 tail 1-7, tarsus 1'5. 



Adult Female. Like the male. 



Young Birds. Less brightly coloured and have the abdomen rosy pink. 



The Angola Pitta ranges from Sierra Leone to Angola 

 and the Usagara Country nearly opposite to Zanzibar Island. 

 The most uorthern range, at present known, for this species 

 is Sierra Leone, from whence Fraser procured the type of 

 his Pitta fuhil and wrote : " Mr. Thomson who originally 

 procured the bird, observes in a note, that the Puhil or 

 mocking-bird, is only found in the Timneh country ; that its 

 note is exceedingly sweet, and when a Timneh would pay an 



