NoviTATES Zoological XXIX. 1922. 379 



977. Pitta mackloti oblita Rothsch. & H. = Pitta mackloti dblita. 

 Pitta mackloti oblita Rothschild & Hartert, Nov. Zool. xix. p. 197 (1912 — Area River). 



Type : (? ad., Avera, Aroa River, Owen Stanley Mts., 23. ii. 1903. Albert 

 S. Meek leg. No. A 279. 



978. Pitta meeki Rothsch. = Pitta mackloti meeki. 

 Pitta meeki Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, viii. p. vi. (1898 — Rossel Island). 



Type: (J ad., Rossel Island, Louisiade group, 2.ii.l898. A. S. Meek leg. 

 No. 1357. 



(I have recognized these interesting forms as subspecies of mackloti, which 

 they undoubtedly are, but an intricate study of the genus may lead to looking 

 upon them aU as forms of Pitta erythrogastra, which appears to be the oldest 

 name of this group.) 



979. Pitta dohertyi Rothsch. = Pitta dohertyi. 

 Pitta dohertyi Rothschild, Bull. B.O. Club, vii. p. xxxiii. (1898 — Sula Mangoli). 



Type : c? ad., Sula Mangoh, October 1897. William Doherty leg. 



t 980. Pitta atricapiUa rothschildi Parrot = Pitta atricapilla aitricapilla. 



Pitta atricapilla rothschildi Parrot, Abhandl. k. Bayer. Akad. ii. KL, xxiv. i. p. 223 (1907 — ^Marin- 

 duque Island, Philippines). 



Type : ^ Marinduque, May 19th, 1888. J. B. Steere leg. 



Parrot gave the name rothschildi to the one specimen he saw from Marinduque, 

 in case this should be a new form. The differences, however, are merely indi- 

 vidual. The extent of white on the primaries varies in this species and is much 

 less in another specimen from Marinduque. The bluish colour of the imderside 

 is also seen in birds from other islands and apparently due to exposure to the 

 hght. In size the ty^Q of rothschildi is not larger than birds from other islands ; 

 the red of the under tail-coverts is not strikingly different. 



981. Pitta schneideri Hart. = Pitta schneideri. 



Pitta schneideri Hartert, BuU. B.O. Club, xxv. p. 9 (1909 — " Mt. Si Bajak, Battak Mountains, Upper 

 Deli, Northwest Sumatra"). 



Type : Adult (male, but not sexed originally), Si Bajak. Gustav Schneider 

 leg. 



982. Pitta superba R. & H. = Pitta swperha. 



Pitta superba Rothschild & Hartert, Bull. B.O. Club, xxxiii. p. 106 (1914 — Manus, Admiralty Islands). 



Type: ^ ad., Manus, 13.x. 1913. Eichhorn Bros. leg. A. S. Meek CoU. 

 No. 6250. 



(Figure Novitates Zoologicab, xxi.) 



983. Mellopitta gigantea Rothsch. = Mellopitta gigantea. 



Mellopitta gigantea Rothschild, Orn. Monatsber. 1899, p. 137 (" Mt. Maori," west of Humboldt 

 Bay, north coast of New Guinea). 



Type : " (J " (?), " Mt. Maori," 3,000 feet, January 1899. J. M. Dumas leg. 

 (Cf. Novitates Zoologicae, xx. p. 491.) 



