KUNGL. SV. VET. AKADEMIENS HANDLINGAR. BAND 56. N:0 2. 85 
158. Pitta cyanoptera. Temm. — The Lesser Blue-winged Pitta. 
Pitta cyanoptera: Gyldenstolpe II; Gyldenstolpe III p. 172; Gairdner p. 39; Oustalet 1903 p. 64; Grant p. 95; 
Bonhote p. 67; Robinson & Kloss p. 48; Robinson I p. 97; Robinson Il p. 147; Gairdner p. 149. 
& Ban Meh Na */5 1914. L=175 mm.; W= 123 mm.; T= 47 mm.; B = 30,5 mm.; Tarsus = 39 
mm. — of Pa Hing °/s 1914. L=170 mm.; W = 121,5 mm; T = 45 mm.; B= 31,2 mm.; Tarsus = 37 
mm. — Irides: brownish black. Bill: black. Legs: yellowish white. 
The Lesser Blue-winged Pitta was rather rare in the localities visited by my Expe- 
dition. 
It was only obtained in Northern Siam. Unlike the other Pittas this species does 
not keep entirely to the ground and one male specimen was shot in a tree, to which I was 
attracted by the melodious whistle of the bird. 
159. Eucichla gurneyi. Hume. — Gurney’s Pitta. 
Eucichla gurneyi: Robinson & Kloss p. 49; Robinson I p. 97. 
o juv. Koh Lak Paa °/1z 1914. L = 188 mm.; W = 101 mm.; T= 42 mm.; B = 28 mm.; Tarsus = 37 
mm. — Irides: brown. Bill: orange, brownish above and at the tip. Legs: yellowish brown. 
During one of my excursions among the mountain chain separating Tenasserim and 
Siam I flushed a Pitta from a very dense and almost impenetrable piece of jungle. I 
succeeded in shooting the bird and it turned out to be a young bird presumably of this 
species though it has a plumage rather different from that of the adult bird as seen by 
the description given below. 
Description: Forehead, crown and nape dusky black with triangular buffy tips to 
the feathers; upper parts of the body and upper tail-coverts umber brown (nearest »Raw 
umber». Ridgway, Plate III) and with broad dusky bases to the feathers; lores, cheeks 
and ear-coverts black; chin dusky brown; throat white; breast and middle part of abdo- 
men dusky brown with pale brownish tips to the feathers and with a few pure black 
feathers mixed up among the other; on the sides of the lower breast there are a few pure 
black feathers barred with yellow on their terminal half; sides of the body and flanks 
pure yellow barred with black; primaries black with greyish-white tips, these being con- 
fined to the outer webs; secondaries and wing-coverts dusky black, the ones as well as 
the wing-coverts washed and tipped with umber brown of the same shade as that one of 
the back; tail bright blue on the outer webs and black on the inner webs of all the 
feathers except the central pair which is bright blue with only the base black. 
Fam. Eurylemide. 
160. Calyptomena viridis. Rarrt. — The Green Broadbill. 
Calyptomena viridis: Miller p. 393; Grant p. 96; Bonhote p. 67; Robinson & Kloss p. 50; Robinson I p. 96. 
© Hat Sanuk ?4/, 1915. L=185 mm.; W = 103 mm.; T= 58 mm.; B = 22 mm.; Tarsus = 20 mm. 
— Irides: black. Bill: yellowish brown. Legs: greenish yellow. 
