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The others are P. gigas=P. CERULEA (Raffles), P. cyanoptera—P. worvccENsis (Müll.), 
Р. irena— P. CORONATA (Müll), and P. elegans—E. poscur (Müll. & Schleg.). Species 10. 
1823.— RArrLEs, in the ‘ Transactions of the Linnean Society.’ 
Pitta скока described as Myiothera cerulea. Species 11. 
|. 1825.—SwAINSON, in the ‘ Zoological Journal.’ 
In January of this year P. versicolor=P. sTREPITANS, Temm., was described. It is 
somewhat doubtful which name has precedence. 
1825.—STEPHENS, Continuation of Shaw's General Zoology, or Systematic Natural History. 
In Part H. vol. xii. six species of Pitta are given, of which Р. bengalensis— 
P. BRACHYURA (Linn.), Р. cyanura=P. асатаха (Müll), P. versicolor—P. STREPITANS, 
Temm., P. ERYTHROGASTRA, Temm., and P. gigas=P. CERULEA (Raffles). No new 
species are described. 
1827.—WacLer, Systema Avium. 
Under the genus Citta are the following :—C. abdominalis and С. superciliosus= 
P. BRACHYURA (Linn, С. Aippocrepis=P. MOLUCCENSIS (Müll), and С. melanocephala 
(nee Müll. & Schleg.) =P. sorpıpa (Müll.). 
1829.—Cuvier, Règne Animal. 
In this edition Cuvier repeats what he had already written in 1817, but adds some 
species in a footnote, viz. :—P. erythrogaster, Cuv.! Enl. 212! (not а Pitta), P. gigas, 
Temm.=P. cæruLEA (Raffles), P. cyanoptera, Temm.=P. moruccensis (Müll.), P. super- 
ciliosa—E. вовсні (Müll. € Schleg.), P. srREPITANS, Leadbeater! Не repeats his 
remarks on La Brève des Philippines, Enl. 89 (but corrects Le Vaillant’s statement as to 
its being a fictitious bird), and on the 4zurin, and includes Myiothera affinis, Horsf., and 
. Pitta thoracica, Temm. Pl. Col. 76, which are not Pittas. No mention is made of 
E atricapilla. 
1830.—Quoy AND GAIMARD, Voyage de Découverte de l'Astrolabe, Zoologie. 
Pitta ATRICAPILLA from new Guinea, described and figured for the first time. 
Species 12. 
1831.—LessoN, Traité d'Ornithologie. 
Nine species of Pitta are here given; no new ones described. No. 7, Brève à téte 
noir, is called P. atricapilla, Cuvier ex Manille (Dussumier), evidently the P. sorpipa 
(Mull.), but no indication given of the work in which Cuvier’s name was supposed to be 
published, or whether it was only a MS. name on a specimen in the Paris Museum. 
Consequently a nomen nudum, not admissible even if it had priority. 
1837.—Hopeson, in the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.’ 
P. NEPALENSIS described as Paludicola NEPALENSIS. Species 13. 
18 —?—Govur», Birds of Australia, vol. iv. 1848. 
P. brachyura, Vigors & Horsfield, 1826 (пес Linn.), renamed P. vicorst. Species 14. 
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