Mr, F. W. Styan on the Chinese Avifauna. 4 A3 



a,b. 6; c. 2 ad. Pulo Tega, April 24, 1886. 



Met with on Pulo Tega in numbers during April 1886, 

 but in the following year Mr. A. H. Everett sent a collector 

 to that island, where he procured numbers of Pitta muelleri 

 but no P. cyanoptera. When I visited the island there were 

 no P. muelleri to be seen. This species must therefore be 

 migratory. It is fairly plentiful in Labuan in some seasons j 

 at other times it is not to be met with. 



It frequents the ground and lower branches of trees in old 

 forest, and is not so easy to shoot as might be imagined from 

 its colouring, as it takes good care to keep its green back to 

 the bird-collector. This species takes flight more often when 

 alarmed than P. ussheri or any other species of this genus 

 that I have met with. The note is a short whistle uttered 

 sharply three times, the first note being the shrillest. 



Iris black ; bill dark brown ; legs pale pink.] 



193. Pitta muelleiu. 



Pitta muelleri (Bp.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 240; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 346; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 263; id. P. Z. S. 188], p. 798; 

 Scl. Cat. B. xiv. p. 439. 

 a, b. S 2 ad. Labuan, June 15, 1886. 

 c. 2 jnv. Labuan, January 5, 1885. 



[Fairly common in Labuan in certain months, and no 

 doubt migrates at certain seasons to this island. Iris and 

 bill black ; feet slaty grey. 



Native name for all species of Pitta '^ Teung tana."] 



[To be continued.] 



XLI. — Some Notes on, and Additions to, the Chinese 

 Avifauna. By F. W. Styan. 



Of the eleven species of Birds enumerated below, five, I 

 believe, have not hitherto been met with in China, and the 

 remaining six are recorded from localities showing an ex- 

 tended range. I deal briefly with them as it is my intention 

 at an early date to treat more fully of the birds of central 

 China, to which district most of these notes refer. 



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