180 Mr. W. li. Ogilvie-Grant o?z B'lnls 



The adult female may generally be distinguished from the 

 adult male by having the chin, upper half of the throat, and 

 cheeks sooty-brown instead of black. 



" The New Grainea Scarlet-breasted Pitta was observed 

 everywhere excepting near Wakatimi and on the coast. It 

 was usually to be seen in pairs, sometimes in lots of three, 

 and though by no means rare, was not always easy to see in 

 the dense undergrowth. It had a rather loud pall and was 

 very active."— r (7,^. B. G. 



Family CUCULIB^, 



CalliecMlirus lencolophus. 



CalliecJithrus leucolophus (Mtill.) ; Shelley, Cat. xix, p, 225 

 (1891) ; van Oort, p. 68 (1909) ; Roths. & Hartert, N. Z. 

 XX. p, 490 (1913). 



a. (J . Wakatimi, Mimikfv River, 28th Bee. 1910. [No. 

 194, C.H.B.G.] 



b, c. ? et $ juy. Upper Mimika River, 26th March & 

 23rd May, 1910. [Nos, 1104, 1164, G. C, S.'] 



d,e. ? . Pariniau, Mimika River, 30th Aug. & 27th Nov. 

 1910. [Nos. 45, 590, C. H. B. G.] 



f,g. c?. Iwaka River, 31st Jan. ^ 10th Feb, 1911, 

 [Nos. 966, 1012, C.H.B.G.] 



h, i. $. Launch Canip, Setakwa River, 27th & 28th 

 March, 1913. [C.B.K.'\ 



k. ? . Canoe Oamp, Setakwa River, 5th Nov, 1912, 

 [C.B.K.-] 



Iris brown ; bill black ; feet ash-colour. 



Total length in the flesh 350 mm, ( = 14 inches). 



Tl^e variqus plumages of this species are "vyor^h}^ pf 

 note, 



In quite young birds the first dqwny plun^age of the 

 underparts js very dark sooty-brown, and there are no white 

 margins to any of the feathers of the breast or under tail- 

 poverts. In the next plumage the feathers of the breast a-re 

 greyish-blackj slightly glossy and mostly edged with white ; 

 the under tail-coverts are tipped and barred irregularly or 

 transversely with white j the amount of the barrings, however. 



