INTRODUCTION. 
1881.—WARDLAW-RAMsAY, in the < Ibis.’ 
Р. soror described. Species 45. 
1881.—SaLvabort, Ornitologia della Papuasia e delle Molucche. 
In this valuable work is given all the Pitta inhabiting the Moluccan and Papuan 
islands, with full synonymy and critical remarks. No changes in nomenclature are made. 
1883.—Oares, Birds of British Burmah. 
Interesting and valuable accounts of the habits and economy of the different 
species of Pitta found within the limits of which the work treats are given. 
1884.—Ramsay, in the ‘ Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.’ 
Р. CYANONOTA, ex S.E. New Guinea, redescribed as P. finschi. 
1888.—ScrATER, Catalogue of Birds m the Collection of the British Museum. 
The Pittidæ in this work includes four genera—ANTHOCINCLA, PITTA, EUCICHLA, 
and Coracopitta=MeELLOPITTA, Stejneger. The Pitta are separated into two divisions 
and nine sections. The first is called Pitte aberrantes, containing large birds without 
scarlet crissum, excepting in two instances, and the second, or Pitte typice, moderate- 
sized birds, save one, with scarlet crissum, except two. The various generic terms 
proposed by different authors for groups distinguished mainly in coloration are 
employed as subgenera, and a new one, Calopitta, for Р. MAXIMA is proposed. While 
giving fairly copious synonymy for each species, it is not intended as a Monograph, 
but merely, as its title implies, a Catalogue of the specimens in the British Museum. 
The various decisions reached by this Author, which Ee not been accepted, are 
recorded in the present work, in the text accompanying the different species affected 
by them, and it is unnecessary to repeat the arguments here. The members of the 
genus Coracopitta (= MxrrorrrrA, Stejneger) are probably not closely enough related 
to the Pitta to be retained in the Family, and will find a more appropriate resting- 
place elsewhere. 
1889-90.—SALVADORI, in ‘ Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova.’ | 
P. товіж described. Species 46. 
1892.—D. G. Егллот, in the * Auk.’ TT 
P. granatina, auct. пес Temm., ex Borneo, described as P. G. BORNEENSIS. Species 47. 
1893.—Jonx WHITEHEAD, in the ‘Ibis. 
The object of this paper is to give the Author's views on certain species, and to 
correct some errors in the descriptions of the soft parts in various species, and to 
* suggest a more natural arrangement of the members of the Family." The nomenclature 
is copied from that given in the xivth volume of the Catalogue of Birds. The 
genera adopted are four in number, viz.:—1. Hydrornis for Pitta NEPALENSIS and P. soror ; 
2. Gigantipitta for P. cERULEA; 3. Pitta, divided into four groups, a, b, c, d—the 
