ON THE GENUS PITTA. 



By Mr. G. D. ROWLEY. 

 PITTA ROSENBERGI (Schlegel). 



[Continued from p. 269.] 



I PROPOSED to insert a woodcut of Kordo (on the island of Mysore), the 

 habitat of this Pitta, in the last number of the ' Ornithological Miscellany ;' 

 but, unfortunately, it was not ready. I have now the pleasure of placing it 

 before my readers, with some words of explanation respecting this interesting 

 village, from the diary of Dr. Meyer. I will only add that it is an exact fac- 

 simile of his pencil-drawing, taken April 3rd, 1873. 



Sir John Lubbock, in ^ Prehistoric Times,' 3rd edit. 1872, p. 173 et seq., 

 explains the history of these " Pfahlbauten," or pile-dwellings ; and at p. 176 

 of that work he says : — " The city of Borneo is altogether built on piles ; and 

 similar constructions have been described by various travellers in New 

 Guinea, Celebes, Solo, Ceram, Mindanao, the Caroline Islands, and else- 

 where.'' 



In our own country, at Thetford, remains of such works, resembling 

 the Swiss '* Pfahlbauten," have been described by Professor Newton, in a 

 paper read before the Cambridge Philosophical Society, 31st March, 1862, 

 on the Zoology of Ancient Europe. 



In modern times (though not quite on the same principle or for the same 



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