уш. INTRODUCTION. 
1839.—Eyron, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.’ 
Р. GRANATINA, Temm., ex Malacca, nec Borneo, redescribed as P. coccinea. 
1839-44.—MULLER AND ScHLEGEL, Verhandelingen over de Natuurlijke Geschiedenis der 
Nederlandsche oveerzeesche bezittingen, door de Leden der Natuurkundige 
commissie in Indie, en andere Schrijvers. 
In this work a list of the Pittas known to the authors is given, twenty-two in number ; 
and of these P. gigas, Temm.=P. CERULEA (Raffles), P. irena, Temm.=P. CORONATA 
(Müll.), P. cyanoptera, Temm.=P. moLuccensis (Müll), P. pulih, Fraser=P. ANGo- 
: LENSIS, Vieill., P. melanocephala, Forst. (nec Wagl.), first described=P. FORSTENI, Bon., 
P. atricapilla, ex Borneo— P. SORDIDA (Müll), P. malaccensis (nee Scopoli), ex Malacca= 
P. cucurLATA, Hartl.; P. ATRICAPILLA, Quoy & Gaim., ex New Guinea, is renamed Р. nove- 
guinea ; P. philippensis, Vieill. —P. sonpipa, Müll. It is not apparent that Vieillot ever 
called any Pitta philippensis, nor that Cuvier ever gave the name atricapilla to any 
species of the Family. Five plates are published on Pitta: Nos. 1, 1, of P. воѕсні; 
2,2, P. BauDI; 3, nest and eggs of P. cyanura=P. guaiana (Müll), and eggs of 
P. venusta. The new species described are: P. MAXIMA, P. MELANOCEPHALA (FORSTENI, 
Bon.), P. VENUSTA, P. CELEBENSIS, P. BAUDI, and P. вовсні. Species 20. 
1842.—Gouup, in the * Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.” 
Prrra ırıs from Australia described. Species 21. 
1848.—Вгүтн, in the ‘Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal.’ 
Prrra CYANEA first described. Species 22. 
1843.—HaArTLAUB, in the * Revue de Zoologie.” 
Prrra CUCULLATA described. Species 23. 
1844.—Hopeson, in Gray's ‘ Zoological Miscellany.’ 
In a Catalogue of Birds from Nepal under Turdidæ three Pitta are mentioned— 
P. cyanoptera, Temm.=P. mozruccensis (Mull.), P. rodogaster—P. cucurzara, Hartl., 
and Heleornis (Paludicola) NEPALENSIS. 
1846.—Gray AND MITCHELL, Genera of Birds. 
Thirty-one Pitta are recorded in this work, and one, P. eyanea, Blyth, figured. Of those 
cited eighteen bear the names by which they are recognized at the present time. The 
remainder are synonyms of those previously given, except Р. MELANOCEPHALA, Müll. & 
Schleg. 
1850.--Вохаракте, Conspectus Generum Avium. 
This Author includes m Ріттірж various genera besides those m which the Pitta 
have been placed, but which are now referred to other Families. The Pitta are divided 
into two genera—BRACHYURUS, Thunberg, for the short-tailed species, and Prrra for those 
with lengthened, graduated tails. In the first genus twenty-five species are given, all of 
