174 PITTIDJE, 



seen from Cape York ; others again, are not to be distinguished 

 from the New South Wales birds ; the white spot on the wing is 

 almost obsolete in many from the ranges near Cardwell. Their 

 notes are exactly the same in all localities. The nest and eggs 

 are the same, and are found to vary in the same way as those 

 described and figured by me in the " Ibis," 1867, p. 414. In size 

 they are slightly smaller. I believe the finely spotted variety of 

 the eggs of this species, taken at Cape York by Cockerell and 

 Thorps, was at the time mistaken for the eggs of Pitta macklotii 

 — which is very probable. One thing is certain, I never knew a 

 nest of either Pitta strepitans or P. similima to contain more 

 than three eggs alike; and often two out of the four (the number 

 invariably laid/or a sitting) have been of the finely spotted and 

 light-colourfed variety, the other two strongly and deeply marked 

 as figured in the Ibis, 1867, p. 414." (Ramsay, P.Z.S., 1875, 

 p. 591.) 



Hab. Cape York, Rockingham Bay, South Coast New Guinea. 

 (Iiam..<!r/.y.) 



PITTA MACKLOTII, Mailer and Schlegel. 

 MacMot's Pitta. 

 Gould, Suppl. Bds. Aust., PI. 29. sj- ^ 



The habits and nidification of this bird is similar to the preceding 

 species. Two eggs in the Dobroyde Collection are in form swollen 

 ovals, creamy-white, blotched and spotted all over with irregular 

 shaped markings of light purplish-brown and obsolete spots of 

 purplish-lilac and bluish-grey, the latter colour appearing as if 

 beneath the surface of the shell. Length (A) 1-17 x 0-86 inch; 

 (B) 1-18 X 0-87 inch. 



Hob. Cape York, South Coast New Guinea. [Ramsay.) 



