PITTA. 389 



Key to the Species. 



a. Lower plumage plain fulvous. 

 a'. Tail brown tinged with green. 



a". Nape and hind neck blue 7'. /irjialcHxi*, p. ">'.. 



b". Nape and hind neck fulvous P. oatesi, p. ;5'.K). 



//. Tail blue P. cccrulca, p. 390. 



b. Lower plumage cross-barred. 



c'. Nape red ; crown with a black coronal 



band P. cyanea, p. 391. 



d'. Nape ferruginous like crown ; no coronal 



band P. yurneyi $ , p. 395. 



c. Lower plumage with some brilliant crim- 



son. 



e'. Breast and abdomen fulvous or buff, 

 c". Under wing-coverts black. 



a". Bill from gape to tip about 1-2 .. P. cyanoptera, p. 392. 

 b'". Bill from gape to tip about 1-6 . . P. megarhyncha, p. 393. 

 d". Under wing-coverts black -with a 



large patch of white P. brachyura, p. 393. 



f. Breast and abdomen all crimson P. coccinea, p. 394. 



//'. Breast and abdomen green P. cucullata, p. 395. 



d. Lower plumage deep black P. f/umeyi (J , p. 395. 



Fig. 107. Head of P. nepalensis. 



927. Pitta nepalensis. Th.e Blue-naped Pitta. 



Paludicola nipalensis, Hodgs. J. A. S. B. vi, p. 103 (1837). 



Pitta nipalensis (Hodgs.), Blyth, Cat. p. 150 ; Hor*f. $ M. Cat. i, 



p. 182 ; Sclater, Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 414; Oates in Humes N. $ E. 



2nd ed. ii, u. 281. 

 Brachyur us nipalensis (Hodgs.), Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. iii ; id. Ibis, 1870, 



p. 413. 

 Hydrornis nipalensis (Hodf/s.), Jerd. B. I. i, p. 502 ; Hume, N. fy E. 



p. 224 ; Oates, S. F. iii,' p. 337 ; id. B. B. i, p. 412 ; Hume, Cat. 



no. 344. 



The Large Nepal Ground-Thrush, Jerd. 



Coloration. Male. Forehead and anterior half of crown rich 

 fulvous, shading off into blue on the nape and hind neck ; upper 

 plumage greenish brown ; tail brown tinged with green ; wings 



