418 _ MANUAL OF PHILIPPINE BIRDS. 
“Immature female—Top of the head rather dark brown, shading 
gradually into a more rufous tingjon the nape; all the feathers have 
rather darker margins, giving th®8e parts a slightly scaled appearance ; 
a few of the dull red feathers of the adult are beginning to make their 
appearance; the dark olive on the rest of the upper parts has a some- 
what browner shade, though here and there some of the greener feathers 
of the adult plumage may be seen; the grayish blue of the outer wing- 
coverts and outer webs of the secondaries is replaced by dull olive, and 
the slate-blue of the upper tail-coverts and tail is not so bright; the 
ear-coverts are brown, with buff centers; the moustache stripes dirty. 
white, devoid of that reddish shade characteristic of the adult plumage; 
the chin and throat-feathers with white centers and black margins and 
bases, those on the fore neck being conspicuously white, washed with 
reddish; the chest-feathers are whitish buff, with here and there a few 
slate-blue feathers; rest of the under parts dirty whitish buff, most of 
the feathers, especially those on the sides and flanks, margined with 
brownish buff; a few pale scarlet feathers indicate the colors of the adult, 
but are much less brilliant. 
“In more advanced examples the upper parts entirely resemble those 
of the fully adult bird, but the slate-blue on the wings is almost wanting ; 
the fore neck and chest are still intermixed with white-and-buff centered 
feathers, and on the rest of the under parts the scarlet feathers of the 
adult and the whitish buff of the juvenile plumage are represented in 
about equal parts. 
“Tt is difficult to imagine anything more glorious than the colors of 
the fully adult male, the brilliant scarlet of the lower breast and belly 
contrasting vividly with the shining slate-blue chest. 
“The adult female differs from the male only in having the colors of 
the under parts rather less brilliant.” (Grant.) 
Koch’s pitta is known only from the highlands of northern Luzon. 
382. PITTA ATRICAPILLA Lesson. 
BLACK-HEADED PITTA, 
Pitta atricapilla Lesson, Trait d’Orn. (1831), 394; Sciarer, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus. (1888), 14, 438; Granr and WuHITEHEAD, Ibis (1898), 245 
(eggs) ; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 245; SHARPE, Hand-List (1901), 3, 
182; OaTEs and Rep, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 227; McoGrrcor and 
WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 68. 
Wow-hd, Siquijor and Bohol. 
Balabac (Zverett); Bantayan (McGregor); Basilan (Steere, Steere Ezxp., 
Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Bohol (McGregor); Bongao (Everett); Cala- 
mianes (Bourns & Worcester) ; Cebu (Bourns & Worcester, McGregor); Luzon 
(Meyer, Méllendorff, Steere Exp., Bourns & Worcester, Whitehead, McGregor) ; 
Marinduque?* (Steere Hap.) ; Mindanao (Everett, Steere Exp., Bourns & Wor- 
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* Cf. Pitta rothschildi, page 420. 
