414 Mr. D. G. Elliot on the Pittidse. 



This species, which has generally been known by Temminck's 

 name of P. cyanujitera, is undoubtedly the one called moluccensis 

 by Miiller in 1776; and as his specific name antedates those of 

 all other authors, except that of Linnseus, which is raised to 

 generic rank, it must stand, and cyanoptera with the rest become 

 synonyms. Mr. Swinhoe (P. Z. „S\ 1861, p. 412) has referred 

 a Pitta, which he received in Amoy, to P. nymjjha, Schlegel, 

 knowing (like all other ornithologists) that species only from the 

 plate in the ' Fauna Japonica.' He has lately placed this speci- 

 men in my hands for examination ; and I find that it is only the 

 present species with the black of the crown not quite so strongly 

 defined. The difi'erences exhibited in the specimen are hardly 

 sufficient to consider it even a Chinese race of P. moluccensis. 



6. Brachyurus megarhynchus. (Plate XII.) 



Pitta megarhyncha, Schleg. Vog. Ned. Ind. pi. 4. fig. 2. 

 Capite toto ochraceo; torque nuchali nigro angustiore ; gutture 

 toto albo ; rostro crassissimo, nigro. 

 Hah. Banka. 



7. Brachyurus angolensis. 



Pitta angolensis, Hartl. Orn. Westafr. p. 74. no. 223 (1857) . 



Brachyurus angolensis, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. v. 

 Viridis : capite nigro, vitta superciliari rufo-brunnea ; gula 

 roseo-tincta ; tectricibus alarum minoribus uropygioque 

 cyaneis; primariis nigris albo-punctatis ; pectore ochraceo- 

 fulvo ; abdomine crissoque latissime coccineis ; cauda nigra 

 apice caerulescente ; rostro nigro. 



Hah. Sierra Leone. 



~ 8, Brachyurus coronatus. 



Turdus coronatus, P. L. S. IMiillcr, Natursyst. Anhang, p. 144 

 (1776). 



Corvus brachyurus, var. y. bengalensis, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 

 p. 376 (1778)." 



Brachyurus bengalensis, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. vi. 

 Obscure viridis : genis nigris, gula alba ; pectore abdomineque 

 ex brunneo flavis ; uropygio, tectricibus alarum minoribus, 

 caudseque apice, cyaneis ; speculo alari albo ; abdomine 

 crissoque rubris. 

 Hab. Himalayas to Ceylon. 



