supercilium produced back to nearly the end of the black on the neck fulve- 

 scent; chin and upper throat plain fulvescent ; lower throat and sides of the neck 

 the same, but each feather slightly margined with blackish ; under surface of the 

 body fulvous with a tinge of green ; an irregular, half-concealed black guttural 

 collar (not always present) formed by the black bases of the feathers there ; 

 wings black, more or less edged with blue ; rump, upper wing coverts, back, 

 tail coverts and tail bright blue. The female is similar except that the back 

 and wing coverts are chestnut, the whole head and nape rufous grey, closely 

 barred with black, and there is a black demicollar on the back of the neck. 

 Bill black ; eyelids add gape dark fleshy ; legs and feet dark or bluish fleshy ; 

 irides hazel-grey. 



Length. 11-4 to 12 inches; wing 6 to 6*2; tail 2-5 to 2'8 j tarsus 2-4 to 

 2-5; bill 175. 

 Hab.* Tenasserim, Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo, also Siam. 



935. Pitta cyanea, Btyth,J.A.S.B.*\\. p. 1008(1843); xvi. p. 153; 



Gould, B. Asia, v., pL 80; Wallace, Ibis, 1864, p. 198 ; Hume and Dav., Str. 

 F. vi. p. 230 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. p. 93 ; Binghain, Str. F. ix. p. 473. Brachy- 

 urus cyaneus, Blyth, J. A. S. B t xvi. p. 153; id., B. Br. Burin, p. 98; 

 Elliot^ Monog Pitta, pi. xiii. ; id., Ibis, 1870, p. 413; Hume, Sir. F. iii. 

 p. 107. Eucichla cyanea, Dates, B. Br* Burm. i. p. 419. The BLUE PITTA. 



Head greenish grey, changing to reddish on the crown and scarlet on the 

 nape ; a narrow vertical streak from the base of the bill, over the centre of the 

 crown to the nape black ; lores and a line through the eye to the nape black ; 

 upper surface of the body bright blue ; tail blue ; quills of the wing brown, their 

 bases with a white patch ; cheeks and ear coverts fulvous, below which is a 

 moustachial stripe on each side ; chin and throat whitish or buffy white mottled 

 with black ; under surface of the body light blue, barred with black shaft 

 spots ; the breast washed with yellowish j 1 centre of abdomen, under wing 

 coverts and under tail coverts white. The female is .similar, but duller ; the 

 plumage is brown tinged with blue and the lower plumage yellowish brown 

 barred with black. Bill black ; legs pinkish flesh colour ; irides dark reddish 

 brown ; eyelids plumbeous. 



Length. 8-5 to 9 inches; wing 4-5 ; tail 2-3; tarsus r8 ; bill from gape i'2. 



ffab. Bhootan, Burmah and Siam. It was got by Sir Arthur Phayre in 

 Arracan, and Gates found it common on the Pegu hills in the evergreen 

 forests on the eastern spurs between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo. Capt. Wardlaw- 

 Ramsay got it in the Karin hills, and Mr. Davison, throughout Tenasserim as 

 far south as Tavoy. Capt. Bingham procured it in the Thoungyeen valley. 

 Notwithstanding this distribution, it is said to be everywhere rare. It svas 

 found breeding at Kaukarit in Tenasserim during May by Capt. Binghain. 

 The eggs, he says, are not unlike those of other species of the genus. 



