PITTID.E. 355 



HYLACTES. 

 Hylactes, King, P. Z. S. 1830-1, p. 15. 



1742. Hylactes megapodius. 



Pteroptochos megapodius, Kittl. M^m. prds. Ac. Sc. Pdtersb. 

 1831, p. 182, pi. 4. 



Pteroptochus megapodius, Scl. Ibis, 1874, p. 203. 

 a Chili (Capt. Brown) 1842. 6 (Gardner] 1846. 



FAMILY. PITTID^E. 



PITTA. 



Pitta, Vieillot, Anal. p. 42 (1816), Of. Ibis, 1877, p. 260. 



1743. Pitta caerulea. 



Myiothera ccerulea, Raffl. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 301. 



Pitta ccerulea, Vig. Mem. Raffl. App. p. 659. 



Brachyurus cceruleus, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. 1. 



a Malacca (Stevens) 1844. 



The recognized habitat of this species is Sumatra. 



1744. Pitta cyanea. 



Pitta cyanea, Blyth, J. A. S. B, xii. p. 1008. 



Brachyurus cyaneus, Elliot, Mon. Pitt. pi. 13 : Blyth, J. A. 

 S. B. xliii. Extr. No. p. 98. 



a 



A specimen without any indication of its origin. The species waa 

 originally described from Arakan examples. 



1745. Pitta cyanoptera, 



Pitta cyanoptera, Temm. PI. Col. 218 : Salvad. Ann. Mus. 

 Genov. v. p. 235. 



? Corvus brachyurus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 158. 



Pitta brachyura, Strickl. Ann. & Mag. N. H. xiii. p. 37 ; 

 xiv. p. 47. 



Turdus moluccensis, P. L. S. Mull. Naturs. Suppl. p. 144 

 (nom. inept.}. 



Brachyurus moluccensis, Elliot, Ibis, 1870, p. 413. 

 a Malacca (Capt. Nash) 1837. 



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