PITTA CORONATA. 



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Malax Archipelago. 



Pitta maxima, Forst. (Gilolo). 



P. megarhyncha, Schleg. (Banka). 



P. concinna, Gould (Lombok, Sumbawa, Flores). 



P. irena, Temm. (Timor, Sula Islands). 



P. venusta, Terani. (Sumatra). 



P. celebensis, Forsten (Celebes). 



P. rubrinueha, Wallace (Bourn). 



P. rufiventris, Cab. & Heine (Gilolo, Batchian). 



P. cyanonota, Gray (Ternate). 



P. baudi, S. Miiller (Borneo). 



P. forsteni, Elliot (Celebes). 



P. novce-guinece, Mull. & Schleg. (N. Guinea). 



P. bankana, Schleg. (Banka). 



P. guiana, P. L. Midler (Java). 



P. schwaneri, Temm. (Borneo). 



P. miilleri, Bp. (Borneo). 



P. sanghirana, Schleg. (Sanghir Islands). 



P. rosenbergi, Schleg. (Soek). 



P. ussheri, Sharpe (Borneo). 



P. arcuata, Gould (Borneo). 



P. mayforeana, Schlegel (Mayfor Island). 



P. ccerideitorquata, Salvadori (Sanghir Islands). 



Philippines. 



P. erythrogastra, Temm. 

 P. sordida, P. L. Miiller. 

 P. stawi, Sharpe. 



Malat Ahchipelago, Malayo-Chinese Region, 

 and Australia. 

 Pitta oreas, Swinh. (Formosa, Borneo). 

 P. moluccensis, P. L. Miiller (Malacca, Amoy, Siam, Java, 



Sumatra, Borneo). 

 P. vigorsi, Elliot (Banda Islands, Australia). 

 P. granatina, Temm. (Malacca, Borneo). 

 P. macldoti, S. Miiller (Papua, Australia). 

 P. bosehi, S. Midler (Sumatra, Malacca). 



Indo-Malaccan Region. 

 P. cm-idea, Baffles (Sumatra). 

 P. nepalensis Hodgs. (Nepal). 

 P. coronata (India, Ceylon). 

 P. gurneyi, Hume (Tenasserim). 

 P. davisoni, Hume (Tenasserim). 

 P. cucullata, Elliot (Malacca, Nepal, Assam). 

 P. cyanea, Blyth (Arrakan). 

 P. oatesi, Hume (Tenasserim). 

 Antlwcinda •pliayrei, Blyth (Burmah, Tenasserim). 



Australia. 



P. strepitans, Temm. 

 P. iris, Gould. 



Japan and China. 

 P. nympha, Temm. 



Africa. 

 P. angolensis, Hartl. (Sierra Leone). 



The Sanghir-Island species, P. sanghirana, and the Bornean, P. miilleri, were united by Elliot with P. sordida, from 

 the Philippine Islands. Salvadori, however, considers that the Bornean bird is distinct : and the Sanghir-Island 

 Pitta has, I believe, lately been figured (Rowley, Orn. Misc. vol. ii. p. 329, pi. lxv.) as distinct. I have therefore 

 included these two species in the Malayan list ; and among the Indian members I have placed the remarkable 

 horned " Ground-Thrush " or Pitta (A. pliayrei). 



Space has been devoted to this list in order to give my readers in Ceylon who may be interested in this beautiful genus 

 some idea of its distribution. It is probable that I may have omitted some recently described species from among 

 the 44 here enumerated ; but I may mention that Mr. Gould is about to publish a monograph of the Pittas, which 

 will, doubtless, contain every known species properly discriminated. 



Distribution.^The Indian Pitta is a cool-season visitant to Ceylon. It arrives about the same time as 

 the Snipe, or perhaps, on the whole, a little later, for it is not very numerous before the first or second week 

 in October. During that month it arrives in vast numbers in the island, occupying almost every little copse 

 and grove as well as all the forests in the low country, while it is spread throughout all the jungles of the 

 Central Province up to the Nuwara-Eliya plateau, where, however, it is not nearly so numerous as at 

 3000 feet lower down ; and at the Horton Plains I did not hear it at all during my visit in 1877. 

 Mr. Hoklsworth remarks that he has heard it more than once in August at Nuwara Eliya ; so that individuals 

 remain throughout the year at that elevation, and perhaps breed, as they do in many parts of India. I have 

 never myself met with it between the months of May and October ; and it is very certain that by the beginning 

 of the former month it has entirely left the low country on its northward migration. Mr. Bligh writes me, 

 in 1876, from Haputale :— " They arrived in October this year in large numbers ; they rarely come up so 

 high as this (4500 feet), though I have flushed them at over 5000 feet ; but I never heard one call at so high 



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