48 Messrs. Robinson and Kloss on Birds from the 



~^ 137. SaSIA ABNOllMIS. 



Sasia abyiormis (Temm.) ; Hargitt, torn. cit. p. 557. 



Sasia everetti Hargitt, torn. cit. p. 559, pi. xv.; HartertJ 

 Nov. Zool. ix. p. 547 (1902) ; Robinson, p. 184. (^ 



Fairly common in Trang. Mr, Hargitt described a bird V 

 in immature plumage from Borneo as S. everetti, and Mr. 

 Hartert has retained tlie name on account of the slightly, " " 

 larger beak possessed by ]\Ialayan and Bornean birds, the\ 

 type-locality ot" the species being Java, but we doubt whether 

 the distinction can be maintained. 



PlTTID^.. 



""^188. Pitta c^rulea. 



Pitta ccerulea (Raffles) ; Sclater, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 

 xiv. p. 416 (1888). 



Our men secured five specimens in the interior of Trang. 



With the exception of two examples obtained about 1888 

 in the coastal province of Larut, Perak, now in the Federated 

 Malay States Museum, no recent collector has met with 

 this species in the Malay Peninsula, though it is fairly well 

 represented in tlie British Museum by "Malacca" trade-skins. 

 It is probably commoner in the northern parts of the Penin- 

 sula, which have been very little searched of late years. 



Our Dyaks describe it as having in the main the habits of 

 other species of the genus, but to be a bird of much more 

 active flight, which accords with Davison's observations. 



"H.39. Pitta cyanoptera. 



Pitta cyanoptera Temm.; Sclater, torn. cit. p. 420. 



Scarce at Choiig. Trang ; common during the winter 

 months on the smaller islands of the Straits of Malacca, but 

 rarer on the mainland. Not unfrequently captured at night 

 at the lighthouses and occasionally alighting on ships passing 

 down the Straits. 



-^- 140. PrrTA MEGARHYNCHA. 



Pitta megarhijncha Schleg. ; Sclater, tom. cit. p. 431. 

 This species is decidedly rare in the Peninsula and appears 

 to keep to the littoral mangrove belt. We have obtained it 



