220 MESSRS. ROBINSON AND KLOSS ON 



303. Pitta caerulea caerulea (Raffles). 



Mj/lothera caerulea, RiilHes, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1822, p. 301 



(Sumatra). 

 Pitta caerulea, A,, pp. 238, 510 (Nwalubo and Bankasoon) ; F., p. 48 



(Trang). 

 J'itta caerulea caerulea, M., p. 417 (Patiyu). 

 Hrachi/urus davisoni, Hume, Stray Feathers, iii, 1875, p. 321 (Hills 



between Tenasserim and Siaui). 



d, 2. Tasaii, Chumponi, Peninsular Siam, 16-23 March 1919 

 (Nos. 4020, 4790). 



" Male, iris grey ; bill black ; feet pale grey-brown. Female, iris 

 dark hazel ; bill black, whitish horn at base and tip ; feet dull lavender". 



Total length d, 265; 9, 265; wing 6, 148; 9, 155; tail cT, 

 78 ; 9, 70 ; tarsus d, 54.5 ; 9, 57 ; bill from gape d, 41 ; 9, 41 mm. 



The male when shot was enijatjed in eatino^ a small snake. 



In the south of the Peninsula very little is known about this 

 species and we lia\"e only secured it once : in the north it is commoner, 

 as we have several specunens from the interior of Trang and a half - 

 ilcdc^ed bird from Perils. 



Our male specimens from the North agree with the descrip- 

 tions of BrOychyuribs davisoni and with that in the Catalogue of 

 Birds, xiv, p. 417, in having the anterior part of the crown whitish 

 ashy Avith a greenish gloss, irregularly barred with black ; l)ut a bird 

 from Western Pahang has the crown black almost up to the lores, 

 and the paler crown is, we think, only evidence of slight immaturity, 



Stuart Baker has described the Boruean form (types from Mt. 

 Dulit, Baram) as Pitta caerulea Jiosei* 



Pitta granatina coccinea Eyton. 



Pitta coccinea, Eyton, P. Z. S. 1839, p. 104 (Malacca) ; A., p. 511 



(foot of N'Walaho). 

 Eucichla coccinea, C. i, p. 417 (Nwalabo). 



This bird has frequently been taken in the Malay States, and, 



as its occurrence on Nwalabo shows, extends northwards beyond 



their limits. 



Bull. Jirit. Orn. Club, xxxix, 1918, p. 20. 



A. Humo & iJavison, Stray Fealliei-s, vi, 1878. E- (). (Jranl, Fasciculi Malayenses, iii (Birds\ lOOu. 



B. :\riillor, Dio ( >yn\s diT Iiiscl KiiUinsa, 188-2. F. Uobiiison and Kluss, Ibis, 1910-11. 



C. Oalcs, Birds Brit. Burmuli, Vols, i A: ii, 1883. C. (TairdmT, Jonrn. N. H. Soc. Siani, i, 1915. 



D. Uoiihotc, r. Z. S. I'JOl, Vol. i. H. Bobinson, .Journ. F. M. S. Museums, v, 1915- 



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