PITTA. 31 H 



Coloration. Male. Forehead, front and sides, of bead, and the 

 ear-coverts greyish brown, each feather narrowly margined with 

 black ; crown, nape, and back of neck black ; a broad supercilium 

 produced back nearly to the end of the black on the neck, as also a 

 broad patch below this line and separated from it by a broad black 

 streak starting from the eye and passing over the ear-coverts, f ul- 

 vescent ; chin and upper throat plain f ulvescent ; lower throat and 

 sides of the neck the same, but each feather slightly margined with 

 blackish ; the whole lower plumage fulvous with a tinge of green ; 

 the throat separated from the breast by a broad black collar formed 

 by the bases of certain of the feathers ; this collar is not, however, 

 always present ; wings chiefly black, all the exposed portions when 

 closed being blue ; back, upper wing-coverts, rump, tail-coverts, 

 and tail bright blue. 



Female. The whole head and nape rufous-grey, closely barred 

 with black ; a broad streak from the eye over the ear-coverts and 

 a broad collar round the back of the neck black ; a supercilium 

 reaching to the black collar, widening as it approaches it, and half 

 surrounding the end of the black streak just referred to, plain ful- 

 vous ; upper plumage chestnut ; tail blue ; wing-coverts and 

 tertiaries chestnut ; primaries and secondaries brown, more or less 

 edged with ruddy ; chin and throat pale grey ; sides of the head 

 and lower throat fulvous-grey, mottled with brownish ; remainder 

 of lower plumage fulvous, with a tinge of green ; a black collar 

 between the throat and breast, but not so conspicuous as in the 

 male. 



Legs and feet bluish fleshy or dark fleshy, tinged with pale 

 plumbeous ; bill black ; inside of the mouth white ; eyelids and 

 gape very dark fleshy ; irides hazel-grey (Davisori). 



Length about 11'5; tail 2-5 ; wing 6-2; tarsus 2'4; bill from 

 gape 1-75. 



Distribution. Tenasserim, from the foot of Nwalabo mountain 

 southwards extending down the Malay peninsula to Sumatra and 

 Borneo. 



930. Pitta cyanea. The Blue Pitta. 



Pitta cyanea, Blyth t J. A. S. B. xii, p. 1008 (1843) ; id. Cat. p. 157 ; 



Horsf. 8f M. Cat. i, p. 182 ; Hume $ Dav. S. F. vi, p. 238 ; Hume, 



Cat. no. 344 ter ; Sclater, Cat. B. M. xiv, p. 417 ; Oates in Hume's 



N. $ E. 2nd ed. ii, p. 282. 

 Brachyurus cyaneus (Blyth), Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. xiii ; id. Ibis, 



1870, p. 413 ; Hume, S. F. iii, p. 107. 

 Eucichla cyanea (Blyth), Oates, ti. B. i, p. 419; Salvadori, Ann. 



Mus. Civ. (2) v, p. 575. 



Coloration. Male. The lores and a broad streak from the eye 

 over the ear-coverts to the nape black; forehead and crown 

 greenish grey, changing to red, and giving place entirely to red on 

 the nape, where the feathers are long and form a crest ; a black 

 streak from the bill, over the centre of the crown, to the nape ; the 

 whole upper plumage and tail blue ; quills of the wing brown, each 

 with a white patch at the base ; cheeks and ear-coverts fulvous ; below 



