414 MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
Genus PITTA Vieillot, 1816. 
Bill stout and compressed ; en curved; gonys slightly curved; 
nostrils large and-oval, entirely exposed; rictal and frontal bristles very 
short; wings short and curved to the body; first primary nearly as long 
as second, fourth longest; secondaries shorter than the primaries by the 
length of hind toe without claw; tail short, soft, and square, scarcely 
longer than its under coverts; tarsus and toes well developed, the former 
longer than tail and the latter extending entirely beyond the tip of tail. 
Colors various combinations of black, white, brown, bright scarlet, green, 
and blue. 
Species. 
a*. Entire abdomen, flanks, and under tail-coverts bright red. 
b%. Smaller; tarsus, less than 38 mm.; secondaries and secondary-coverts dark 
blue. 
c’. Back entirely green, including the scapulars; chest green with a slight 
wash of blue on the central portion.......................- erythrogastra (p. 414) ; 
ce’. Back, including the scapulars, entirely cobalt; chest bright blue, only 
the* sides spreenish.s...6542i rete Se propinqua (p. 416) 
b*. Larger; tarsus, more than 45 mm.; secondaries and secondary-coverts olive- 
[7A EO WERE SER ae YS ee ecu EEE ye Scar Br aeb hee, te ase kochi (p. 417) 
a’. Only the under tail-coverts, crissum, and middle of iio red. 
b*. Throat and chin entirely black. 
{atricapilla (p. 418) 
NRT STS BC git RISA RE RUSS Bie Se SR moe MN MAR ee a a A I a 
\rothschildi (p. 420) 
CR Woy genes Se a are De Se OME der he Ns ee mulleri (p. 419) 
b*. Throat mostly white. 
eo. Breast and sides light blue: tcc eet steeri (p. 420) 
co. Breast-and sides fawn... cone MOlMECENEIS (p. 421) 
379. PITTA ERYTHROGASTRA Temminck. 
RED-BREASTED PITTA,* 
Pitta erythrogastra TEMMINCK, Pl. Col. (1823), 212; Sctatrer, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 432; Grant, Ibis (1896), 121; WwHrreHEap, 
Ibis (1899), 248 (critical remarks on Pitta propingua). 
Pitta erythrogaster SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 182; McGrecor and Wor- 
CESTER, Hand-List (1906), 68. 
A-li-mu-cung, Ticao; hu-hu-co, Ticao and Masbate; li-o-co, Manila. 
Basilan (Bverett, Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor) ; Bon- 
gao (Hverett) ; Cagayancillo (M/cGregor) ; Camiguin N. (McGregor) ; Calamianes 
(Bourns &€ Worcester); Cebu (Bourns & Worcester); Guimaras (Steere Hap.) ; 
Lubang (McGregor); Luzon (Cuming, Heriot, Steere Exp., McGregor, White- 
head) ; Marinduque (Steere Exp.) ; Masbate (McGregor, Bourns & Worcester) ; 
Mindanao Sdpesied Murray, Everett, Steere alee Bourns & Worcester, Goodfellow, 
_ The pittas are ‘econ fas) some authors as “ant thrushes” but: the latter name 
belongs properly to certain members of the South American family Formicariide. 
The name “ground thrush” appears to have greater validity as the English name 
for the Pittidew, but the use of the name “thrush” in connection with this family 
is misleading and unnecessary. 
