92 On Pitta longipennis and Pitta reiclienowi. 



in 1901 from the Central Congo district, and named (Orn. 

 MB. ix. p. 133) Pitta reichenowi. It is certainly a 

 remarkable-looking bird, differing from P. angolensis and 

 P. longipennis in the green chest, which is slightly mixed 

 with dull ochre on the upper breast. 



In P. angolensis there is a double pale eyebrow, a narrower 

 one above the black sides of the face and a superior broad 

 one of dark ochreous In-own. In the other two species there 

 is but one eyebrow, very broad, light ochreous, and turning 

 paler towards the posterior end of the superciliary band 

 along each side of the nape. 



The blue spangles on the wings are of a deeper cobalt- 

 blue in P. reichenowi and P. longipennis, and there is a shade 

 of purple or ultramarine on the spots of the median and 

 greater wing-coverts, as well as on the inner secondaries, 

 especially in the last-named species. 



The Avhite alar speculum in P. reichenowi is of about the 

 same size as in P. angolensis, and the amount of whitish 

 shade at the end of the outer secondaries is indistinct and 

 not so great as in P. longipennis. 



The characters for the three species seem to be as 

 follows : — 



Blue s] ots ou 

 median and 

 greater wing- Ochreous super- 

 coverts ciliary stripe 



eau-de-nil or double, 

 cobalt. 



purplish blue or single, 

 ultramarine. 



cobalt or dull single, 

 ultramarine. 



]. P. angolensis . 

 -. 1'. longipennis 

 •'). P. reic/wnojci 



Light spots at end of Fore-neck and chest 



outer secondaries 

 obsolete, greyish white. pale ochreous. 

 white and distinct. ' pale ochreous. 



obsolete, greyish white. , dull greenish. 



