APPENDIX I. 511 



As Davison has shot this species in the Straits, and is a 

 practised observer, I propose to enter this species as 



p. 243 ; 345 quat. — Pitta coccinea, Eyton. 



Foot of Nwalabo. 



It is necessary to add a description of this species. We have 

 not recorded the dimensions of any adults in the flesh. 



A young bird, shot at Johore, measured : — 



Length, 7 - 0; expanse, 11*5 ; tail, 1*62 ; wing, 3*55 ; tarsus, 

 1*45 ; bill from gape, l'l; weight, 2 ozs. 



Adults appear to be somewhat larger ; wings running to 3*7 

 and tarsi to nearly 1*6. 



In the young bird the legs, feet, and claws are pale lavender ; 

 the bill black ; the gape and a spot on the bases and at the tips 

 of both mandibles, orange vermilion. No traces of this orange 

 vermilion appears on the bill of adults. 



In the adults the whole forehead as far back, or nearly as far 

 back as a line drawn through the anterior angle of the eye, 

 black, as is also a very broad stripe over the eye, and the whole 

 of the sides of head. The whole of the rest of the top and 

 back of the head intense crimson, bordered on either side on the 

 occiput and nape by a narrow line of lavender blue. The rest of 

 the upper surface a dull blue with a purple tinge, most conspicu- 

 ous on the interscapulary region where the terminal portions of 

 the feathers are glistening, but both here and on the rump the 

 dusky bases of the feathers show through a good deal. The 

 quills and primary greater coverts are dull black, but all the 

 visible portions of the secondaries and tertiaries are overlaid with 

 the color of the back. The greater and median secondary coverts 

 are broadly tipped sometimes on both webs, generally chiefly on 

 the outer webs, with pale glistening lavender blue. 



The chin and throat are dusky, sometimes browner, sometimes 

 blacker, often more or less intermixed with dull red or purple. 

 The breast similar, but with more or less of a deep purple shade, 

 and with more or less of dull crimson tippings, and many of 

 the feathers glistening towards their points. Rest of the lower 

 parts dull crimson, paling towards the vent, and generally much 

 mottled with dusky owing to the bases of the feathers showino- 

 through. 



The Bornean granatina, of which I have a tine specimen from 

 Sarawak, seems to differ in its generally richer coloring, es- 

 pecially on the breast, abdomen, &c. In the paler and more 

 silvery blue of the occipital stripes and wing-covert tippings, 

 and in the fact that the crimson of the crown does not extend 

 beyond a line drawn through the middle of the eyes. 



